Life Starts Where There Is Hope
Our Hospital Organ Transplantation Center, consists of highly experienced transplant surgeons, adult and pediatric nephrologists, adult and pediatric gastroenterologist, anesthesia specialist, diagnostic and interventional radiologists, pathologists, transplant coordinators, nurses, psychologists and social workers.
The main purpose of this great team is not only transplantation but also to give the best health care in all kinds of surgical diseases of the biliary tract, liver and pancreas glands in the shortest timewith high-tech equipment and experience
Our Hospital organ transplant team has senior experience the field of liver and kidney transplants. So far, having a strong team capable of liver and kidney transplant with successfully gained results practiced with the surgical technique not only for the adults but also children below 1 year old and 10 kg, is able to compete with the most advanced centers in the world.
Diseases Which Can Be Performed Liver Transplantation For Children And Adults In Our Center
- Cirrhosis
- Liver tumors that have not spread outside the liver (HCC)
- Some slowly progressing tumors that invaded liver (neuroendocrine tumors)
- Fulminant hepatic failure
- Some parasitic diseases such as alveolar hydatid cyst
- Innate metabolic diseases and haematological diseases (Trizonia me, Wilson's disease, familial hypercholesterolemia type 1 etc.)
- Posttraumatic major liver injuries
Large proportion of diseases that cause kidney failure can be performed kidney transplantation in all age groups. The most common diseases which
- kidney transplant can be done are
- Existing congenital disorders (aplasia, hypoplasia)
- Cystic kidney disease (polycystic kidney disease)
- Glomeronephritis (MPGN, RPGN etc.).
- Hereditary disorders (Alport's syndrome, Fabry's disease, etc.).
- Tubulointestisyel nephritis
- Vesicoureteral reflux
- Neurogenic bladder
- Vascular diseases (nephrosclerosis, HUS, TTP, and so on.)
- Kidney stones
- Diabetes
- Hypertension
At Our Hospital all examinations of patients referred for transplant Organ Transplant Center is completed carefully. Patients are made ready for transplantatıon within a short perıod of 4 to 7 days. Then the transplantation process is performed at the shortest time. "quick call system" established by the team believes that one of the most important factors in the success of organ transplantation is patient follow-up after the transplantation, patients can reach to their physicians in any time wherever they need.
In Bone Marrow- Stem Cell Transplantation Center , bone-marrow –stem cell transplantation can be performed in patients having blood diseases such as
- Multiple myeloma (malignant bone marrow disease caused by plasma cells),
- Lymphoma (hematologic lymph node cancer),
- Acute leukemia (blood cancer),
- Chronic leukemia,
- Bone marrow failure, aplastic anemia a kind of bone marrow failure seen in the elderly,
- MDS disease
Pediatric hematopoietic stem cell transplants center
Both autologous (patient's himself) and allogeneic (from another person) transplantationa are performed at Our Hospital Pediatric hematopoietic Stem Cell Transplants Center
The central is supported with apheresis unit, pediatric intensive care, pediatric nephrology, pediatric neurology, pediatric cardiology, endocrinology, pediatric gastroenterology and pediatric chest diseases units.
Diseases which have the possibility of treatment with hematopoietic stem cell transplantation at Our Hospital Pediatric Hematopoietic Stem Cell Transplants Center are
- leukemia, lymphoma and some cancers which do not respond to treatment
- Congenital or acquired blood diseases (Mediterranean anemia, such as sickle cell anemia)
- Congenital or acquired bone marrow failure (such as aplastic anemia)
- Deficiencies of body defense system (such as the heavy combined immunodeficiency)
- Congenital metabolic diseases (such as adrenoleukodystrophy)
