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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.
MHL currently features the following centres for transplant surgery
University Medical Centre (UKE), Hamburg, Germany
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.
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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.
MHL (Medilux Healthcare Ltd.) promotes individual hospitals or hospital groups which we believe offer high standards of care. We provide you with general information and details of how to make contact with the centre, but we shall not be responsible for the quality of any diagnosis or treatment given or for the failure to diagnose or treat any condition. We cannot advise or enter into correspondence about individual cases and we do not arrange or facilitate treatments.
Important note to all patients
University Medical Centre Mainz, Germany
The University Medical Centre Mainz (Universitätsmedizin Mainz) is the teaching hospital of Johannes Gutenberg University, the fifth largest in Germany. With more than 1,000 doctors it treats over 62,000 inpatients per year. Specialities include organ transplant, particularly liver, pancreas, kidneys, lung (including live donor lung transplant), bone marrow and cornea.
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