hurdle to successful kidney transplantation. The MHH has already performed more than 100 such transplants. After the transplantation, a rejection reaction against the transplant occurred for a short time [...] largest transplant centers in Europe and, in the field of transplants in children and adolescents, one of the largest centers worldwide. In 1968, the success story began with the first kidney transplant. Now [...] of the MHH-Department for General, Visceral and Transplant Surgery . Today, the MHH Transplant Center is the leading center in Germany for transplanting hearts, lungs, livers, kidneys and pancreases in

does the transplant center stand in your view? With a large number of groundbreaking scientific innovations, the MHH is one of the pioneers of transplantation medicine. Accordingly, transplantation medicine [...] care. The Transplant Center serves to coordinate all clinics, institutes and outpatient departments involved in transplantation. With more than 300 thoracic and abdominal organs transplanted per year and [...] General, Visceral and Transplant Surgery at Hannover Medical School since October 1, 2022. On April 1, 2023, he took over from Professor Dr. Axel Haverich as head of the Transplant Center. The visceral

life-threatening situations, the transplants are frozen before conditioning begins and only thawed on the ward at the time of transplantation. Only when the transplant is in the clinic is the conditioning [...] Haematology, Haemostaseology, Oncology and Stem Cell Transplantation at Hannover Medical School (MHH), a total of 96 allogeneic stem cell transplants were performed in 2020 - more than ever before. "Allogeneic" [...] the transplants were complicated by the Corona pandemic." This was made possible above all by the good teamwork of all the departments and specialists involved. In 2019, 90 stem cell transplants were

euros over 36 months. B cells form antibodies against the transplant "The humoral immune response by certain B cells, which recognise the transplant as foreign, is largely responsible for the rejection," [...] donated organ after transplantation," emphasises Professor Dr Britta Eiz-Vesper, immunologist at the Institute and expert in immunotherapies. Therapeutic potential not only for transplant medicine In preliminary [...] widespread variants for transplantation." The aim is to soon build up a CORA T-cell bank with the most common HLA variants and then make these available to patients for customised transplants. "This approach would

n for each affected person individually. "More transplant patients still die from diseases promoted by taking the immunosuppressants than from transplant failure," explains private lecturer Dr Richard [...] damage to the transplant earlier and treat it, for example, by using a different or higher immunosuppression. The team has now published their findings in the American Journal of Transplantation. As part of [...] thesis, Emily Saunders performed protocol biopsies in liver transplant patients with normal liver values from one year after transplantation. During a biopsy, doctors remove a small piece of tissue from

receive a pre-emptive transplant, i.e. a transplant before the complete failure of kidney function and the need for dialysis. The Professor of Interdisciplinary Experimental Transplantation Medicine emphasises [...] able to show this in a European study. Although the mortality rate in children after kidney transplantation has fallen in recent decades, it is still very high compared to the general population due to [...] are more prone to developing vascular stiffness compared to boys; this difference persists after transplant." Vascular stiffness is a medical characteristic used to diagnose the progression of cardiovascular

have been transplanted in Hannover, and so far this year there have been more than 150. "Transplant medicine at the MHH is a success story" - but until now there had been no place where transplanted patients [...] organ transplantation is for persons concerned like a second birthday Professor Dr. Axel Haverich, head of the MHH Transplant Center and director of the Clinic for Cardiac, Thoracic, Transplantation and [...] their transplant like a second birthday." Peter Fricke, chairman of the Bundesverband der Organtransplantierten e.V. (Federal Association of Organ Transplant Patients) and himself a heart transplant for

already been transplanted in Hannover. In 1987, the MHH surgeons performed the first bilateral lung transplant in the German-speaking world. This organ, which is far more difficult to transplant, became their [...] and here especially of the aorta. In 1983, the first heart was transplanted at the MHH The surgeons in Hannover had been involved in transplant medicine from the very beginning. In 1983, when the MHH already [...] an international reputation for kidney and liver transplants thanks to Professor Dr. Rudolf Pichlmayr, Borst's team performed the first heart transplant at the MHH - the second time this had ever happened

of Egbert Trowe. He died on May 31, 2023, at the age of 78. Mr. Trowe himself received a liver transplant in 2002 due to viral hepatitis and since then advocated for organ donation and cared for patients [...] wholeheartedly to the topic of organ donation and the care of people before and after organ transplantation. We are very grateful to him for this. Our sympathies go out to the relatives," says Professor [...] Donation Day. He was also a member of the board of trustees of the German Foundation for Organ Transplantation, a member of the board of trustees and foundation board of the German Liver Foundation, and a

Education for ALL Topic: Modern Virus Control After Transplantation Speakers: Prof. Dr. Britta Eiz-Vesper Institute of Transfusion Medicine and Transplant Engineering, MHH Prof. Dr. Christian Hinze Clinical [...] Clinical Department of Nephrology and Hypertension, MHH Kidney transplant recipients have a weakened immune system due to medication and are susceptible to viral infections. An interdisciplinary team of clinicians