On 27 January 2017, a team of specialists led by dr hab. Maciej Słupski, head of the Department of Hepatobiliary and General Surgery of the A. Jurasz University Hospital No. 1 in Bydgoszcz, performed the first liver transplantation surgery in the region.
On 27 January 2017, the first liver transplantation in the region was performed at the Department of Hepatobiliary and General Surgery of the A. Jurasz University Hospital No. 1 in Bydgoszcz. We are thus the fifth city in Poland (next to Warsaw, Katowice, Szczecin and Wrocław) to offer surgical treatment of this kind.
Due to the function, location and vasculature of the liver, hepatic transplantation is considered to be one of the most difficult types of surgery performed to date. The procedure may take many hours and requires great precision and thorough preparation.
The surgery was performed by a team of 15 medical specialists, surgeons, anaesthesiologists and operating room nurses, led by dr hab. Maciej Słupski. Surgeons from the University Hospital received expert assistance of a medical team from the Central Clinical Hospital in Warsaw, where our specialists have been training over the past year. It took eight hours to complete the surgery – three hours to remove the organ from the donor and five hours to place it in the body of the recipient. The patient is feeling well.
The Department is already preparing for further liver transplantation surgeries.
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Number of deceased-donor transplantations in Poland in 2016 |
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kidney |
kidney+pancreas |
liver |
heart |
lung |
TOTAL |
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978 |
38 |
317 |
101 |
35 |
1469 |
| source: www.poltransplant.org.pl | |||||
photo: Piotr Myczko