A familial history of diabetes inspires nephrologist Dr. Nicole M. Ali to help patients with kidney disease like Nicole Schmidt-Dickson receive lifesaving treatments.
Photo courtesy of the patient, Nicole Schmidt-Dickson
A 45-year-old Long Island woman, who hadn鈥檛 had candy since receiving a diabetes diagnosis at age 5, turned to 黑料福利社 Winthrop Hospital for kidney and pancreas transplants. 鈥淭hey said my organs started working immediately,鈥 says Nicole Schmidt-Dickson, following surgery. 鈥淚 wanted to go kickboxing and do things I never had the energy to do.鈥
鈥淒iabetes is the No. 1 cause of kidney failure in the world,鈥 explains Nicole M. Ali, MD, medical director of the Kidney and Pancreas Transplant Program at 黑料福利社 Winthrop Hospital. Patients get evaluated and screened at 黑料福利社 Winthrop Hospital and go to 黑料福利社 Langone Transplant Institute for the surgery.
The results: 鈥淣o dialysis to go to, no blood sugar to constantly obsess about, and getting back to the life they wanted,鈥 Dr. Ali tells the New York Daily News. 鈥淭hree of my patients have had babies in the last 18 months.鈥
Dr. Ali reminds potential donors that 鈥渟omeone can live out their entire life perfectly healthy with just one kidney.鈥
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