Breakthrough Medicine

To Walk Another Day: Leg-Saving Transplant Surgery

Airing Sunday, November 15 at 1 p.m. on Channel 10 (ABC).

In this episode of Breakthrough Medicine, UHealth/Miller's television documentary series, viewers will meet a young mother from the Bahamas with bone cancer as she fights to save her leg and her life by undergoing a donor knee transplant performed by experts from UHealth's Department of Orthopaedics and Sylvester Comprehensive Cancer Center. Viewers will learn about the University of Miami's innovative Tissue Bank , and how the team, led by H. Thomas Temple, M.D., uses donated bone and tissue to perform limb-sparing and life-saving surgery.

The show will air again on Channel 10 (ABC) on Sunday, November 15 at 1 p.m.

We invite you to learn more about Dr. Thomas Temple, the University of Miami Tissue Bank, Dr. W. Jarrard Goodwin and Sylvester Comprehensive Cancer Center, all featured in this episode.

Find out more about the documentary series Breakthrough Medicine and view the episode Mending Broken Hearts: Percutaneous Aortic Valve Replacement.
 

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