KidneyTransplants in Mid TN

09/04/2025 30 min
KidneyTransplants in Mid TN

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Episode Synopsis

This month on Focus we're honoring National Donate Life Month, with interviews that give you more information about organ, eye,  and tissue donation and transplantation. In this interview, Dr. Jacfranz Guiteau, a kidney transplant surgeon at Ascension Saint Thomas in Nashville, discusses kidney disease, treatments and transplantation. He discusses what's new, why transplants are needed, who can donate, what it'll cost to donate or receive a kidney. This incredibly informative and helpful information may help dispel some questions or fears that you may have about the possibility of a transplant for someone in your life. See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.