A Duke Health team led by Joseph Turek, MD, PhD, performed the world's first on-table heart reanimation for infant transplant, an advance that could dramatically expand the donor pool for pediatric heart transplants.
The 230-acre campus will include a 500-bed children’s hospital, a children’s outpatient care center, 103 children and adolescent behavioral health beds, and a research and education enterprise backed by the UNC and Duke schools of medicine.
A team from the Duke Division of Cardiovascular and Thoracic Surgery has performed the first robotic bilateral lung transplant in the Southeast, and one of the first in the U.S. Duke is one of only a handful of centers in the nation performing fully robotic lung transplants.
The Duke Center for Brain and Spine Metastasis combines advanced imaging and high-dose stereotactic radiosurgery to treat some of the most complex cases, and they're changing who has access to that care.