Organ Transplantation Center

With our fully fledged JCI certified hospitals and experienced Professors who are experts in relevant field, we can handle any crucial emergencies that might occur during Liver Transplantation. Currently we have a team of 10 members which consists of the most experienced, US and Germany trained Professors who are liver transplant specialists. 

History of Ogran Transplantation in Turkey 

First successful organ transplantation has been performed by Haberal and his team as kidney transplantation from mother to her son on 3rd of November 1975 in Hacettepe University Hospital. In 1979 National Organ Transplant Act numbered 2238 about "TAKING, STORING AND TRANSPLANTATION OF ORGANS AND TISSUES" has been effectuated and it has been provided legal framework of organ transplantation. One month after this legislative regulation, the first kidney transplantation from cadaver has been performed. In 1990 liver transplantation between relatives has been performed firstly in Europe and Worldwide respectively. Up to date approximately 4800 kidneys, 2500 livers, 75 hearth, 1 pancreas, 6000 corneas, and 600 bone marrow transplantations have been performed in our country. 

Which organs and tissues can be transplanted?

Removing an organ from one person and surgically placing it in another person can be the most basic explanation of organ donation. 
Worldwide, organs and tissues that can be transplanted include the heart, liver, lungs, kidneys, pancreas, intestine, blood, bone marrow and insulin-secreting pancreas cells. 
Heart, liver, lungs, kidneys, pancreas, cornea, bone marrow and blood transplantations are being performed successfully in Turkey.
 

Which organs and tissues can be transplanted in Dr.Turka hospitals for our international patients?

• Kidney transplant 
• Liver transplant 
• Pancreas transplant 
• Corneal transplant surgeries are executed within our organ transplant centers. 

Sources of Transplanted Organs

- Live donors (relatives up to 4th degree) 

- Cadavers

In most countries there is a shortage of suitable organs for transplantation because the transplantation needs are not met by organ donations. Currently in our country there are more than 40000 patients living with dialysis (unfortunately most of them are young and middle age between 20-40 years old). They can survive with dialysis machine for 3 times a week and daily 3-4 hours. This has restrictive and detrimental effect on their social life. After renal transplantation they become free from all these restrictions and their survival rate increase. Patients with advanced heart and liver disease are in more dismal condition since there are no auxiliary treatment options such as dialysis so their survival rate is low.

Is Organ Transplantation a Good Treatment? 

By means of organ transplantation lifespan becomes longer and life quality increases with having lower cost comparing the treatment used for end stage organ deficiencies such as dialysis. Therefore organ donation is an important contribution to humanity not only in health outcomes but also in economic consequences for all countries. Additionally patients dependency decreases and loss of workforce becomes the benefit.
We have patients who had kidney transplantations 20 years ago. Their achievements from that times to date can not be compared to any kind of happiness, even can be told from their side as ''miracle''… They have stepped into new relations, they have families and their own businesses thus ''adopted to life in every sense''. It is possible to give many different examples for the other organ transplantations as well. Organ transplantation is a good treatment option for the patients having advanced heart, liver and kidney diseases.