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 UMHC/Sylvester. 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 UMHC/Sylvester, 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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