While Waiting for New Heart, VAD Saved His Life
On New Year’s Eve 2005, 15-year-old Adam McCann began having trouble breathing so his parents took him to a local hospital. A chest x-ray revealed his heart was significantly enlarged. Physicians determined that Adam was in severe heart failure. The suspected cause was a viral infection. He needed immediate treatment or he would die. Initially, Ad ...
Single Site Surgery Means Quicker Recovery, Less Pain
The day after Fay Norton’s surgery to remove her gallbladder, the 74-year-old retired physician was out walking her son’s dog around the neighborhood. Her prescription for postoperative pain sat unneeded in the medicine cabinet and she felt fine. Fay’s remarkable recovery was due to a groundbreaking surgical technique – single incision laparoscopi ...
VAD Returns Heart Failure Patient to Typical Teenager
Jeffrey Smith was dying of virus-induced heart failure in April 2002. He urgently needed a heart transplant; without one, he wouldn’t last more than a few more days. But a nationwide shortage of organ donors meant that weeks or months could pass before a suitable heart would become available. His only hope was the Thoratec® Ventricular Assist Devi ...
Ventricular Assist Device Saves Man’s Heart
Jimmy Hathcock’s heart – the one he was born with – beats strongly in his chest, which makes him something of a medical miracle. It’s the same heart that a year ago was so badly damaged it almost killed him, and got him on a waiting list for a new one. But today he is off the transplant list and his old heart is ticking just fine. Jimmy’s heart wa ...
Kidney Transplant Patient Back to Making Music
Five-year-old Matthew Almonte was looking forward to his first day in kindergarten when a routine preschool exam revealed a suspiciously large amount of protein in his urine. Matthew had FSGS, or focal segmental glomerulosclerosis, a kidney disease that can dangerously impair the body’s chemical balance and that would ultimately threaten his life. ...
Pancreas/Kidney Transplant Patient Living Diabetes Free
By age 36, Robin Sluga had run out of options. Her eyesight began to fade. She lost most of her peripheral vision and her night vision. Then her kidneys started to fail. A steady regimen of dialysis, insulin shots and a rigid diet proved fruitless. The Type I diabetes she was diagnosed with at age 10, was taking its toll. In May 2001, Robin underw ...
Transplant Patient Shares His Story
Darren Sussman shares his experience of kidney failure, dialysis, the transplantation process and how he discovered a whole new side to organ transplantion – the donor family – in this video documentary by Alexander Wolfe. The Casey Connection – One TGH transplant Patient’s Story

Welcome

Welcome to the website for the Tampa General Medical Group (TGMG), a division of Tampa General Hospital. TGMG physicians specialize in organ transplantation, cardiology, digestive disorders, hepatology (liver disease), nephrology (kidney disease), primary care and surgery. TGMG was formed in October, 2010 by the group of physicians that were once part of The Lifelink Transplant Institute. Most recently, TGMG has added to its staff primary care physicians specializing in family practice and internal medicine. The physicians are located at several locations in the Tampa area.