Kidney Transplant

Kidney failure patients face two choices: Live with dialysis or get a kidney transplant. The ideal situation is for patients to avoid dialysis and consider kidney transplant first, which requires a living donor.

The Baylor Scott & White kidney transplant programs combined have performed nearly 7,000 kidney transplants. Every year, 350 kidney patients or more receive the life-saving gift of organ donation and transplant at Baylor University Medical Center, part of Baylor Scot & White Health, Baylor Scott & White All Saints Medical Center—Fort Worth and Baylor Scott & White Medical Center—Temple.

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Our kidney transplant program at Baylor University Medical Center in Dallas has more than three decades of experience and offers complete services to care for your physical, emotional, mental and spiritual needs.

We’ve invested in technology like robotic surgery to improve care and perform living donor kidney transplants to minimize the time spent waiting for a new kidney. If you have a potential living kidney donor, we can also check compatibility with others across our network to match the right living donors with the right recipients.

Watch an overview video about our kidney transplant program in North Texas

Simultaneous kidney and pancreas transplants are performed for patients with either type 1 or type 2 diabetes who qualify. The dual transplant functions better than a kidney alone because the new pancreas protects the transplanted kidney from the harmful effects of diabetes. As a result, the new kidney performs better and longer in the kidney/pancreas transplant recipient.

Many kidney/pancreas transplant recipients are free of diabetes years after their transplant and report a higher quality of life than kidney-alone patients.