Conditions Treated

Diseases and Conditions Treated by Organ Transplant at Loyola Medicine

Loyola’s specialists and transplant surgeons are well versed in a variety of diseases and conditions that affect your organs. If your condition is not well controlled with conservative treatments, an organ transplant may be the best medical option. Some diseases and conditions that may require an organ transplant include:

  • Advanced heart disease
  • Cardiomyopathy
  • Cholesterol emboli
  • Complex adult congenital heart disease or defect
  • Coronary artery disease
  • Dilated cardiomyopathy
  • Heart disease
  • Heart failure and advanced heart failure
  • Heart valve disease
  • Hypertension
  • Life-threatening arrhythmias, or abnormal heartbeats or rhythms, that do not respond to other treatments
  • Primary pulmonary hypertension
  • Restrictive myopathy
  • Severe angina that can no longer be treated with medications or other surgeries
  • Valvular heart disease
  • Vascular disease
  • Vasculitis
  • Acute pyelonephritis
  • Acute tubular necrosis
  • Diabetes
  • Diabetic eye disease
  • Glomerulonephritis
  • HIV infection
  • Hyperoxaluria and oxalosis
  • Kidney artery problems
  • Kidney damage from chemotherapy or other drugs
  • Kidney disease
  • Kidney trauma
  • Lupus
  • Placental abruption
  • Placenta previa
  • Polycystic kidney disease
  • Reflux nephropathy
  • Renal cell cancer
  • Type 1 diabetes
  • Type 2 diabetes
  • Ureter obstruction
  • Alcoholic cirrhosis
  • Alpha-1 antitrypsin deficiency
  • Amoebic liver abscesses
  • Autoimmune hepatitis
  • Bile duct cancer
  • Biliary atresia
  • Budd-Chiari syndrome
  • Cholangiocarcinoma
  • Delta agent (hepatitis D)
  • Early stage liver cancer
  • Fatty liver disease
  • Hemochromatosis
  • Hepatic adenoma
  • Hepatitis B
  • Hepatitis C
  • HIV infection
  • Liver cancer
  • Liver cirrhosis
  • Nonalcoholic steatohepatitis
  • Polycystic liver disease
  • Primary biliary cirrhosis
  • Primary sclerosing cholangitis
  • Pyogenic liver abscesses
  • Reye syndrome
  • Wilson’s disease
  • Alpha-1 antitrypsin deficiency
  • Coccidioidomycosis
  • COPD (chronic obstructive pulmonary disease)
  • Cystic fibrosis
  • Interstitial lung disease
  • LAM (lymphangioleiomyomatosis)
  • Sarcoidosis with advanced pulmonary fibrosis
  • Diabetes
  • Diabetic eye disease
  • Type 1 diabetes
  • Type 2 diabetes
  • Scleroderma
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Loyola's expert and recognized transplant team has one goal: restoring you to better health.

Schedule an appointment with any of our heart, lung, liver, pancreas or kidney transplant specialists or learn about our living donor transplant programs today.

Call Us at 708-327-3700