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Alpár Kató Alpár Kató · 15/01/2019
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Great results! Hungary organ transplants up 10 pc in 2018

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Hungary organ transplants

Budapest, 2018. december 28. Szívkivétel mûtét egy fõvárosi kórházában 2018. október 8-án. Idén 2018. december 28-ig hatvanegy szívátültetést végeztek Magyarországon. MTI/Mónus Márton

Hungarian hospitals performed 10 percent more organ transplants last year than in 2017, the state secretary for health said on Monday.

Hospitals saw increases in the number of kidney, liver, heart and lung transplants, Ildikó Horváth said after a conference organised as part of the European Union’s EUDONORGAN project.

Hungarian hospitals performed a total of 505 organ transplants in 2018, Horváth said. In 119 cases — 22.6 percent of all donations — the organ was donated from abroad, she said.

There were 335 kidney transplants last year, a 12 percent increase over 2017, Horváth said. Hospitals performed 80 liver transplants, up more than 8 percent from 2017. Altogether there were 23 lung and 62 heart transplants, also more than in 2017.

Sándor Mihály, director of the Hungarian National Blood Transfusion Service’s transplant surgery division, said that far more people in Hungary would be willing to donate their organs after their death than the number of those who are aware of the legal regulations concerning organ donation.

Fully 73 percent of Hungarians would want to donate their organs, but only 23 percent are aware of the legal aspects, Mihály said.

Melania Istrate, coordinator of EUDONORGAN, said that the project aims promote and increase social awareness about organ donation and strengthen training for healthcare professionals and other relevant actors in the field.


DOCTORS PERFORM HUNGARY’S FIRST SUCCESSFUL PAEDIATRIC LUNG TRANSPLANT SURGERY

Surgeons at Budapest’s Semmelweis University and the National Oncology Institute have performed the first-ever successful paediatric lung transplantation in Hungary, read more HERE.


BRAIN SURGERY PERFORMED WITH ROBOT FOR FIRST TIME IN HUNGARY!

A patient suffering from Parkinson’s Disease was successfully operated on at the National Institute of Clinical Neurosciences, as agykutatas.hu reports. The operation was performed with a state-of-the-art neurosurgery robot called ROSA. This was the first time the technology was used in the Central Eastern European region, read more HERE.

Source: MTI

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