Fletcher Allen, a Vermont university hospital and medical center, serves all of
Vermont and the northern New York region. Located in Burlington, Fletcher Allen is a regional, academic healthcare center and teaching hospital in alliance with the University of Vermont.
Transplantation Services
Currently, the Division of Transplantation Surgery and Immunology at Fletcher Allen provides the following variations of organ transplants:
Kidney Transplant Surgery
The variations of kidney transplantation surgeries Fletcher Allen transplant surgeons perform include: living donor - related, living donor - unrelated, Good Samaritan (non-directed/anonymous), cadaver donation, high risk/highly sensitized protocols, living related/unrelated - deceased exchange, and pediatric kidney transplantation. We also offer a laparoscopic nephrectomy, also known as "keyhole surgery" -- a minimally-invasive procedure for obtaining a kidney from a living donor.
Pancreas Transplant Surgery
Additionally, we perform pancreas transplantation in any of the following combinations: simultaneous kidney and pancreas surgery, pancreas after kidney and pancreas transplant surgery alone. These pancreas transplants are done for patients with type 1 diabetes mellitus and some type 2 who have secondary complications. A successful pancreas transplant means that the recipient's glucose remains normal without insulin injections.
Services available through Fletcher Allen's Transplant Surgery program:
- Kidney Transplant Surgery
- Pancreas Transplant Surgery
- Simultaneous Kidney-Pancreas (SPK) Transplant Surgery