Transplant surgery is a difficult area for international patients, since availability of donor organs can be restricted to nationals or those from a limited area. Some areas of transplant surgery are open however, e.g. those involving the removal of organs or parts of organs from a live donor, usually but not necessarily a family member.
A1Med currently features the following centres for transplant surgery
The Clinic of Hepatobiliary and Transplant Surgery offers interdisciplinary treatment of tumours of the liver, biliary tract and gall bladder and liver, kidney and pancreas transplants. It is led by Prof Björn Nashan and is the largest transplant centre in Northern Germany, with nearly 200 transplants performed.
Transplant
Where a patient has a suitable donor prepared to offer a kidney for transplant, both donor and recipient can travel together for treatment.
Similarly liver donor liver transplant has become more common, where a portion of the donor's liver is transplanted. The liver has great powers of regeneration and in a successful operation the donor's liver will substantially regrow and the transplanted portion will also grow to significant proportion of normal liver size.
This is a highly complex area of surgery and rigorous screening of both donor and recipient is required. Immuno-supression measures are required to prevent rejection of transplanted organs and careful monitoring is necessary for some time after the operations.
Ethical issues also arise on the sourcing of live donor or cadaver organs, so patients are advised to consider very carefully the record and experience of any hospital or surgeon offering transplant therapy.
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