Why choose Ohio State for kidney transplant?

Why choose Ohio State for kidney transplant?

Expertise: Ohio State performs more than 200 kidney transplants a year, making it one of the top 10% busiest programs in the country. Since its first kidney transplant in 1967, OSU has performed more than 6,900 kidney transplant surgeries. In September 2011, OSU completed a six-way, single-institution transplant, the first and largest to date in Ohio, and one of only a handful in the US. 
Experience: The Comprehensive Transplant Center has one of the largest organ transplant programs in the nation. It performs more than 475 kidney, liver, pancreas, combined kidney-pancreas, heart and lung transplants each year. Since the program started in 1967, more than 10,000 life-saving transplants have been performed.
Kidney transplant research: OSU participates in clinical trials of new immunosuppressive drugs and antirejection therapies.
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