Organ Transplantation Center
Ege University Organ Transplant Center offers consultative services, treatment and surgical interventions to patients with a wide range of diseases requiring liver, kidney, heart, bone marrow and cornea transplantation. Our center is one of the most experienced transplant centers in Turkey.
Our Organ Transplant Center combine state-of-the-art technology and leading-edge medical and surgical interventions to provide individualized, ongoing care for patients with chronic diseases. Our team member expert surgeons have performed more than 5.000 transplants (1228 liver transplants) between 1994 and 2019, and have achieved some of the best graft and patient survival rates in the country. With our full range of medical departments, we are able to provide seamless continuity of care from pediatric through adult patients.
The Pediatric Transplant Program at Ege University is a referral centers for organ transplants for children. Our surgeons and transplant team work to ensure optimal treatment before, during and after transplant. Our multidisciplinary approach and experience of over 30 years in transplantaiton ensures the optimal care for our patients.
In Ege University Faculty of Medicine, we train the next generations of transplant specialists in all areas of medicine and continue to improve the care of transplant recipients worldwide. Patients receiving care at our centers benefit from our unique combination of basic and clinical research, education, and clinical expertise.
Milestones of Organ Transplantation in Ege University
1963 First Cornea Transplantation
1987 First Cadaveric Kidney Transplantation (Total of 15 kidney transplants in 1987)
1988 First Living-related Kidney Transplantation (1059 Living related, 541 Cadaveric between 1998 and 2013)
1994 First Liver Transplantation (deceased donor)
1998 First Heart Transplantation
1999 Liver Transplantation (living donor)
2003 Establishment of Cornea Bank
2009 First Lung Transplantation
KIDNEY TRANSPLANTATION CENTER
Our staff specialist members of the kidney transplant team comprises general surgeons, nephrologists, infectious disease specialists, pediatricians, nuclear medicine specialists, pathologists and radiodiagnostic specialists. With an experience of over 2000 successful kidney transplants, our center provide a multidisciplinary approach to diagnosis and treatment.
The kidney transplant surgeries at Ege Kidney Transplant Center are performed on donors and recipients using laparoscopic (closed) methods. A small incision in the groin of the donor provides access to remove the donor kidney with laparoscopy. This method reduces the risk of post-surgery infection as the incisions made are small. This method also helps the healing process.
Donors who undergo laparoscopic surgery are discharged the following day and are expected to resume their usual day to day routine within a week. The recipient of a transplanted kidney is discharged approximately one week following the procedure.
Experience makes perfect
Years Cadaveric Living
1987 15 0
1988-2013 541 1059
2014 52 (10 pediatric) 83 (2 pediatric)
2015 78 (3 pediatric) 43 (2 pediatric)
2016 34 71
2017 32 43
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Prof. Dr. Özgür FIRAT
E-mail: ofirat.75@gmail.com
Phone: +90 533 258 97 47
Prof. Dr. Özgür Fırat graduated from Ege University Faculty of Medicine in 1998 and completed his General Surgery residency at Ege University in 2005. He has performed over a thousand live-donor and deceased-donor kidney transplants. He is currently a faculty member of the Ege University School of Medicine and assists in the oversight of the Kidney Transplantation Program.
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E-mail: taylansezer@yahoo.com.tr
Phone: +90 505 950 23 71
Assoc. Prof. Dr. Taylan Ö. Sezer graduated from Ege University School of Medicine in 2001 and completed his General Surgery residency at Ege University in 2008. After returning from Pittsburgh Thomas Starzl Organ Transplant Institute in 2010, he continued to work in the organ transplantation center at Ege University School of Medicine. He has performed over a thousand live-donor and deceased-donor kidney transplants. He is currently a faculty member in the Ege University School of Medicine and oversees the Kidney Transplantation Program.
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LIVER TRANSPLANTATION CENTER
Liver transplant is reserved as treatment option for patients with serious complications due to end-stage chronic liver disease. In rare cases, previously normal liver may fail suddenly.
The number of people waiting for a liver transplant highly exceeds the number of available deceased-donor livers. The human liver has the capacity to regenerate and it returns to its normal size after removing a part of the organ surgically which makes living-donor liver transplant an alternative to waiting for a deceased-donor liver to become available.
At Ege University Liver Transplant Center, a multidisciplinary team of surgeons specializing in liver transplantation, hepatologists, transplant nurses, pathology experts, radiologists and other health professionals provide quality care focused on you before, during and after transplant. Decisions about your treatment is discussed among the team, appointments are scheduled in coordination, and your transplant care team works together to determine the best treatment for you.
Over 70% over all liver transplantations performed in Turkey are done by surgeons who trained at Ege University.
EXPERIENCE
1994 First Liver Transplantation (Deceased-donor )
1999 First Living-donor liver transplantation
1994-2019 1228 Liver transplatations (537 Deceased-donor, 691 Living -donor)
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E-Mail: murat.zeytunlu@ege.edu.tr
Phone: +90 232 390 50 68
Prof. Dr. Murat Zeytünlü graduated from Ege University School of Medicine in 1993 and completed his General Surgery residency at Ege University in 2000. He worked in the transplantation unit of Ege University until 2009, when he founded the Liver Transplantation Unit in Kent Hospital. Between 2009 and 2016, he actively participated in over 900 liver transplantations in this unit. In 2017, he returned to Ege University and worked in the organ transplantation center of Ege University School of Medicine. He has performed over 2000 adult and pediatric liver transplantations, 1400 of which were live-donor transplants. He is currently a faculty member in the Ege University School of Medicine and oversees the Liver Transplantation Program.
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ALPER UĞUZ, MD, U.E.M.S., H.P.B.S.
Assoc. Prof. Alper Uğuz graduated from Ege University Faculty of Medicine in 2001 and completed his General Surgery residency at Ege University in 2009. He received his European Union of Medical Specialists (U.E.M.S.) and HPB Surgery certifications in 2017. He is currently a faculty member of the Ege University School of Medicine and participates in the Liver Transplantation Program.
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