Organ Transplantation

Treatments

Organ Transplantation

With modern surgical techniques and a multidisciplinary approach, we offer a new chance at life to patients suffering from organ failure. Transplant procedures performed at our center are carried out with world-class success rates and an experienced team.

1. Kidney Transplantation

Kidney transplantation is the most effective treatment for chronic kidney failure and the option that most significantly improves quality of life. While dialysis sustains life, kidney transplantation restores it to near-normal conditions.

Who Is Eligible?: It is performed in patients with permanent loss of kidney function due to diabetic nephropathy, hypertension, polycystic kidney disease, or glomerulonephritis.
Types of Transplantation: Transplants are performed both from living donors (relatives or ethically approved donors) and from deceased donors.
Surgery and Recovery: The operation typically lasts 2–4 hours. The average hospital stay is 4–7 days.
Success Rate: The 1-year graft survival rate is close to 95%.

2. Liver Transplantation

Liver transplantation is often the only life-saving treatment option for cirrhosis, acute liver failure, and selected liver cancers.

Indications: It is performed in cases such as hepatitis B and C, alcoholic liver disease, NASH (non-alcoholic steatohepatitis), and hepatocellular carcinoma (HCC).
Advantages of Living Donation: Thanks to the liver’s regenerative capacity, transplantation can be performed rapidly using a portion of liver obtained from a healthy donor.
Procedure: Depending on the condition of the organ, the surgery is a complex procedure that may last 6–12 hours.
Recovery: Patients are usually discharged within 7–14 days.

3. Pancreas and Combined Transplantations

Pancreas transplantation offers a permanent solution for selected patients with Type 1 diabetes by eliminating insulin dependency.

Simultaneous Pancreas–Kidney Transplantation (SPK): The most ideal method for treating both diabetes and diabetes-related kidney failure at the same time.
Pancreas Transplant Alone: Suitable for patients with normal kidney function but severe, uncontrollable hypoglycemic episodes.
Outcome: After a successful transplant, the vast majority of patients discontinue insulin use, and blood glucose levels return to normal.

General Process and Life After Transplantation

Organ transplantation is not just a surgery—it is a lifelong partnership.

The transplant process begins with a meticulous multidisciplinary evaluation of both recipient and donor candidates, including blood tests, radiological imaging, cardiological assessments, and infection screenings. After surgery, patients must take lifelong immunosuppressive medications to prevent the body from rejecting the new organ.

Patients who adhere to this treatment regimen can typically return to work within a few months, travel, engage in sports, and maintain an active social life with a significantly improved quality of life.

It should be remembered that a single donor can provide up to eight life-saving organs for patients on waiting lists and, through tissue donation, improve the quality of life for more than 40 individuals.