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INTEGRIS Nazih Zuhdi Transplant Institute was founded in 1984 by director Nazih Zuhdi, M.D.
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On October 31, 1998, surgeons at INTEGRIS Baptist Medical Center performed the 1,000th transplant in the history of INTEGRIS Nazih Zuhdi Transplant Institute, founded in 1984 by director Nazih Zuhdi, M.D.
"One thousand people have been given a chance at life by donors and dedicated medical personnel during nearly a decade and a half," said Zuhdi, in announcing the landmark. "Families have been able to experience the joy of their loved one's extended life."
The heart transplantation surgery was performed in the course of three hours from 11 p.m. to 2 a.m., Oct. 31, by John Chaffin, M.D., and David VanHooser, M.D. VanHooser and perfusionist Jerry Jenison, C.C.P, were also participants in the first heart transplant surgery at INTEGRIS Nazih Zuhdi Transplant Institute in 1985. Ye Yong, M.D., and Shi-Feng Le, M.D., retrieved the organ from a local hospital. The patient, 47-year-old Margaret Sue Craig, suffered from cardiomyopathy.
"In founding this program, Dr. Zuhdi believed that Oklahomans had the right to have transplant procedures performed here and should not have to leave the state," said Stanley Hupfeld, former INTEGRIS Health president and CEO. "The transplant institute brought life-saving medicine to the Sooner state and has continued to pave the way with cutting-edge procedures."
Since its opening, INTEGRIS Nazih Zuhdi Transplant Institute has expanded from a staff of only three to more than 130 clinicians and support personnel. And it has emerged as the only comprehensive transplant program in the state of Oklahoma. Transplants are performed for nearly every organ system: heart, lungs, liver, kidney, pancreas and small bowel. As a leader in transplantation, INTEGRIS Nazih Zuhdi Transplant Institute's "hospital within a hospital" approach combines the expertise of multiple specialists to care for the whole patient. With a full understanding of organ systems, INTEGRIS Nazih Zuhdi Transplant Institute patients are cared for by an entire team of clinicians; there is no need for patients to leave the facility to benefit from liver cancer management (radiology and chemotherapy), assist devices for bridge to heart transplant, a congestive heart failure program, or the hepatobiliary center, all services that are available at INTEGRIS Nazih Zuhdi Transplant Institute.
"The UNOS 1997 Report of Center Specific Graft and Patient Survival Rates" – the latest national comparative data – shows that of the 49 comprehensive centers in the country, only six have performed as many or more heart, lung and liver transplants as INTEGRIS Nazih Zuhdi Transplant Institute. For these seven transplant centers, INTEGRIS Nazih Zuhdi Transplant Institute ranked first in lung, second in heart and second in liver patient survival rates for the first year after transplantation (the standard national measurement). No other center has overall rankings as high.
INTEGRIS Nazih Zuhdi Transplant Institute was founded by Zuhdi, the first surgeon in the United States to implant a pig's heart valve into a human. He was the first in the world to implant a stabilized glutaraldehyde porcine aortic valve into a human. Zuhdi is also known as "the father of hemodilution" a principle universally used in open heart surgery procedures with a heart-lung machine.
INTEGRIS Nazih Zuhdi Transplant Institute Firsts
- 1985 - First heart transplant in Oklahoma performed by Nazih Zuhdi, M.D.
- 1985 - First piggyback heart transplant performed in Oklahoma
- 1987 - First heart-lung transplant performed in Oklahoma
- 1987 - First left ventricular assist device implanted in Oklahoma
- 1987 - First kidney transplant at INTEGRIS Nazih Zuhdi Transplant Institute
- 1990 - First single lung transplant performed in Oklahoma
- 1992 - First liver transplant at INTEGRIS Nazih Zuhdi Transplant Institute
- 1994 - First double lung transplant performed in Oklahoma
- 1994 - First pediatric liver transplant at INTEGRIS Nazih Zuhdi Transplant Institute
- 1995 - First living-related liver transplant in Oklahoma
- 1995 - First kidney/pancreas transplant performed in Oklahoma
- 1996 - First small bowel transplant performed in Oklahoma
- 1996 - INTEGRIS Nazih Zuhdi Transplant Institute physician leads nation's first in-situ split liver transplant
- 2008 - First paired kidney transplant in Oklahoma
- 2009 - INTEGRIS Nazih Zuhdi Transplant Institute participates with Johns Hopkins and Barnes-Jewish hospitals in the first six-way, multi-hospital domino kidney transplant
- 2010 - INTEGRIS implants the nation's first Levacor heart pump device