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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.

Transplant

Specialist treatments < 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.

University Medical Center (UKE), Hamburg, Germany

MHL currently features the following centers for transplant surgery

UKE Transplant Clinic

The Clinic of Hepatobiliary and Transplant Surgery offers interdisciplinary treatment of tumors 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.

University Medical Center Mainz, Germany

University Medical Centre Mainz

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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