Lungs taken from a donor at the Regional Hospital in Kielce were given to a recipient in Hamburg. The first historic procurement, with the participation of a foreign transplant team, took place in Kielce a few days ago.
According to Jacek Bicki, M.D., head of the Department of General, Oncological and Endocrine Surgery at the PTSC in Kielce, this was a multi-organ donation. In addition to the lungs, kidneys and a liver were also taken from the donor and transplanted in Poland.
- Since no lung recipient with the right blood type was found in our country, the donor woman was reported by Poltransplant to Eurotransplant," explains Wieslawa Saladra, who coordinated the procurem...
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