Advanced Transplant & Organ Health

From medical management to relieve your symptoms to more advanced care, Virtua Advanced Transplant & Organ Health provides coordinated and comprehensive kidney, pancreas, and liver care. Our expert team guides you through each step of your journey.

Our Approach to Transplant and Organ Health

Virtua is the only provider of kidney, pancreas, and liver transplant services in South Jersey.

But we’re way more than just a transplant program with more than 45 years of experience.

We provide comprehensive care based on your specific needs, and we streamline referrals, tests, and procedures. Our nephrologists (kidney specialists), hepatologists (liver specialists), gastroenterologists (digestive health physicians), and endocrinologists (doctors who specialize in health conditions related to the body’s hormones) work together to evaluate and treat your condition at every stage.

If your specialist believes you would benefit from an organ transplant, we strive to shorten your time on the wait list through progressive organ procurement programs, including:

• Pursuit of living (kidney) and deceased (kidney and liver) donor organs from greater distances
• Participation in paired exchange (when incompatible living donor pairs match up, allowing the two donors to switch recipients so the individuals in need receive a new, healthy kidney), chain (involving numerous paired exchanges), and remote donor transplants (which allows donors to complete their testing and transplant surgeries at a center close to home rather than traveling to the recipient’s hospital) through organizations such as the National Kidney Registry to obtain organs from across the country
• Safe transplantation of hepatitis C-positive organs into hepatitis C-negative recipients through the administration of pre- and postoperative medication, to decrease time spent waiting for a new kidney or liver

Our Advanced Transplant & Organ Health Programs and Services

• Kidney care
• Liver care
• Pancreas care
• Organ transplantation
  • Living donor kidney transplant
  • Deceased donor kidney, liver, and pancreas transplant
  • Simultaneous kidney-pancreas transplant
  • Simultaneous liver-kidney transplant
  • Renal autotransplantation, in which a surgeon removes a kidney, fixes its vascular or ureter problems, and implants it back into the patient
• Arteriovenous (AV) fistula creation for dialysis
• Repair of complex vascular conditions
• Surgical management of liver, pancreas, gall bladder, and bile duct disorders

Advanced Transplant & Organ Health Conditions We Treat

Our specialists provide comprehensive care for a wide range of kidney, liver, and pancreas disorders. They include:

Kidney care

• Chronic kidney disease (CKD)
• Kidney failure (also called end-stage renal disease)
• Kidney cancer
• Kidney injury
• Pregnancy-related kidney problems
• Kidney stones
• High blood pressure
• Fluid retention
• Congenital kidney abnormalities (kidney problems that occur at birth)

Liver care

• Hepatitis B and C
• Fatty liver disease, including nonalcoholic fatty liver disease (NAFLD) and nonalcoholic steatohepatitis (NASH)
• Liver failure
• Liver cancer (hepatocellular carcinoma)
• Cirrhosis (scarring)
• Refractory ascites (an abnormal accumulation of fluid in the abdomen)
• Autoimmune and cholestatic chronic liver disease
• Portal hypertension
• Bile duct cancer
• Advanced-stage hepatic encephalopathy

Pancreas care

• Pancreatitis (acute, chronic, and hereditary)
• Exocrine pancreatic insufficiency
• Pancreatic cancer
• Pancreatic cysts
• Cystic fibrosis-related disorders