EDINBURG –– Friday, June 12th, was a triumphant day for surgeons, Philip Thomas, MD and Jose Almeda, MD, at DHR Health Transplant Institute. The surgeons successfully performed the institute’s 50th kidney transplant surgery, reaching a milestone that had been anticipated by the DHR Health Transplant Institute since the program’s inception in 2016. “This transplant is monumental for several reasons, but mainly indicative of the enormous amount of effort and drive the team at DHR Health Transplant Institute has put forth to get to the 50th transplant,” states Philip Thomas, MD, Transplant Surgeon at DHR Health Transplant Institute. “This was a combination of ...