Hungary sees 307 transplants last year
Overall, 307 transplants were performed in Hungary last year, the National Blood Supply Service (OVSZ) said on Friday.
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A total of 273 organs were removed from brain-dead patients and 34 were removed from living organ donors, it said.
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Altogether 196 kidney transplants were conducted in four Hungarian hospital centres dedicated to transplants, most of them in Budapest’s Semmelweis University.
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Hungary’s two heart transplant centres performed 34 operations,
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of which 24 were carried out at the Semmelweis University’s Heart and Vascular Centre and ten at the Gottsegen Gyorgy National Cardiology Institute.
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Liver transplants numbered 59, and lung transplants 14. Twenty-six percent of the transplanted organs were provided by foreign donors. Altogether 1,313 patients were waiting for organ transplants at the end of last year, OVSZ said.
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Source: MTI