ORGAN TRANSPLANTATION CENTERS

Our hospitals provide superior services with great success to patients not only in Turkey but also on an international platform in the field of kidney, liver and pancreas transplants in particular.

Organ transplantation is the most effective treatment method used in patients with terminal organ failure for whom it is not possible to treat due to various reasons. In Turkey, organ transplantation operations have started gaining widespread acceptance with the first successful kidney transplantation performed in the year 1975.

Presently, patients who cannot regain their health by means of other treatment methods get a second chance thanks to organ transplantations, and their quality of life is sustained together with that of their families. In Turkey, kidney transplantation is possible by using the organ of a relative up to the 4th degree who is also a donor.

Survival Rates for Kidney Transplants

The 'Organ Transplantation Team' broke a new world record for recovery figures following a transplant.

Survival rates for patients undergoing kidney transplants are 98% one year post-transplant, and 96,7% three years after transplant while it is 95,1% one year post-transplant, and 79,8 three years after transplant in USA.

Organ transplantation is the moving of an organ from one body to another for the purpose of replacing the recipient's damaged or failing organ with a working one from the donor site.

ORGAN TRANSPLANTATION CENTER

• The Complex Organ Transplantation Center in Turkey has performed 1,225 transplantation operations successfully since November 2008. The number of transplantations performed in a year elevated this center to the leading position in the world.

• Furthermore, the center achieved follow-up capability above world averages due to 98 percent patient survival rate and more than 95 percent organ survival rate.

• This center performs one third of all the transplantations in Turkey, and has performed more transplantations than those handled in many European countries like Belgium, Norway and Sweden in a year.

• The first triple and quadruple cross donor kidney transplantations as in the history of medicine in Turkey were performed at this Center.

• The Center has the first cross transplantations team in Turkey that has also handled the largest number of procedures in Europe.

Organ Transplantation Success Rates

A total of 3,683 organ transplantation surgeries were carried out.

• Kidney transplantation: 3.447
• Liver transplantation: 202
• Pancreas transplantation: 34

Other facts:

• 550 organ (Kidney + Liver + Pancreas) transplantations on average are carried out in a year.
• One fifth of kidney transplantations in Turkey are carried out in this Center.
• In Turkey, 3.000 kidney transplantations on average are carried out in one year and 500 of them are carried out in this Center. In other words, one sixth of the total organ transplantation surgeries in Turkey has been performed here.
• Kidney transplantations in Turkey are carried out by this Center alone.
• There is no difference between the success rates of transplantations with tissue compatibility and transplantations without tissue compatibility. In other words, success rate of organ transplantations without tissue compatibility is also really high.
• By-pass and kidney transplantation surgeries were carried out in the same session, for the first time in the world, in the Center.
• The survival rates announced by United Network for Organ Sharing (UNOS) in the USA: - 1-year patient survival 97.9% - 3-year patient survival 94% - 5-year patient survival 89.4%
• Survival rates in this Center, as announced by Ministry of Health Turkish Organ and Tissue Registration System data, is higher than UNOS data announced in the U.S.
  • 1-year patient survival: 97.8%
  • 3-year patient survival: 97.4%
  • 5-year patient survival: 95.7%

Contact us for more information on the organ transplant procedures available in Turkey and how we may assist you in living accomodations, translation and transportation services. Ideally, our clients stay in the city of Mersin for the duration of their medical stay, however, arrangements may be made in several major cities in the country according to your preference.