Organ Transplant

Our Organ Transplant Service provides solid organ transplantation expertise for all DOD health care beneficiaries. It is one of the oldest and most successful renal transplant programs in the country and is fully integrated with the hospital-based Nephrology and Dialysis Services. It is the only UNOS certified transplant center within the DOD health care system.

Conditions Treated

• Any General Surgical conditions in conjunction with pancreatic, renal, or hepatic insufficiency.
• Renal, pancreatic, and hepatic transplantation.
• Living kidney donation.
• Benign and oncologic hepatobiliary and pancreas surgery.
• Portal hypertension.
• Hemodialysis and peritoneal dialysis access.
• Surgical treatment of tertiary hyperparathyroidism.
• Cadaveric multi-organ recovery.

Transplant Surgery

Our Organ Transplant Service provides state-of-the-art specialty care to all DOD health care beneficiaries qualifying for organ transplantation. Patients may be referred from anywhere in the world. Medical care is provided on a personal level by a multidisciplinary team of highly qualified professionals. Each Board certified surgeon is supported by nephrologists, hepatologists, nurse coordinators, pharmacists, and social services all with years of experience in the field.

Integrated with the Service is the DOD’s Histocompatibility and Immunology Laboratory and the onsite Navy Regenerative Medicine Research facility.

VA beneficiary patients may access the program via partnership through the area wide Veterans Hospital Nephrology Services, specifically Baltimore Veterans Hospital,  Washington DC Veterans Hospital, and Martinsburg Veterans Hospital.

Patients who have undergone transplantation through the military have demonstrated superior success rates (graft survival and patient survival) compared with national averages.

Dual Listing: Patients may be “listed" in more than one region concurrently, thereby increasing chances for organ availability. This allows patients to be listed at a transplant center near their home, in addition to WRNMMC.

Living Donation: Both cadaveric and living donor renal transplantation are routinely performed. We offer state of the art minimally invasive robotic kidney donation as well as other robotic- assisted surgeries. We participate in both regional and national kidney paired donor exchange programs and are a member of the National Kidney Registry (NKR) and Alliance for Paired Kidney Donation (APKD).

Dialysis Services: Peritoneal dialysis and hemodialysis services are available on site.

Hepatic and Pancreatic Transplantation: We partner with the local academic centers to expedite all preoperative, operative, and postoperative care which is provided under the auspices of military medicine.