DARLA K. GRANGER, M.D., F.A.C.S.

Dr. Granger has vast experience in performing laparoscopic living kidney donation and pediatric renal transplantation. She completed her general surgery residency as well as surgical infectious disease, surgical endoscopy and transplant surgery fellowships at the University of Minnesota. She served as the transplant surgical director of both the pancreas and hand transplant programs at the University of Louisville. She is currently an associate professor of surgery at Wayne State University.

Selected Publications:

• Granger DK , Briedenbach WC, Pidwell DJ, Jones JW, Baxter-Lowe LA, Kaufman CL. Lack of donor hyporesponsiveness and donor chimerism after clinical transplantation of the hand. Transplantation 74: 1624-30, 2002.
• Breidenbach WC, Tobin GR, Gorantla VS, Gonzalez NR, Granger DK. Hand transplantation: experimental background, ethical basis, current outcomes and future prospects. J Hand Surg. [AM] 27(5):760-770, 2002.
• Granger DK. Enteric coated mycophenolate sodium (EC-MPS; Myfortic?): Results of two pivotal global multicenter trials. Transplant Proc 33(1-8): 3241-3244, 2001.
• Granger DK, Cromwell JW, Chen SC, Goswitz JJ, Morrow DT, Beierle FA, Sehgal SN, Canafax DM, Matas AJ. Prolongation of renal allograft survival in a large animal model by oral rapamycin monotherapy. Transplantation 59(2):183-186, 1995.
• Granger DK, Matas AJ, Jenkins MK, Moss AA, Chen SC, Almond PS. Prolonged survival without posttransplant immunosuppression in a large animal model. Surgery 116(2): 2513, 1994.

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