Pancreas transplantation "Since the first pancreas transplantation was performed in Germany in 1987, the MHH has established itself as one of the most experienced and largest transplant centers in Germany [...] Germany. The transplantation of a pancreas, usually in combination with a kidney transplant, is numerically the rarest transplantation in Germany among the abdominal organs, but very beneficial for the individual [...] for dialysis ("blood washing") has occurred. In special cases, isolated transplantation of the pancreas without kidney transplantation is also possible, especially in the case of blood sugar fluctuations

to lung transplantation in childhood and adolescence are cystic fibrosis, pulmonary hypertension and various forms of childhood interstitial lung disease (ChILD). After successful transplantation the patients [...] possible transplantation takes place on an inpatient basis in our pediatric lung ward 63. At the Hannover Medical School, an average of eight to ten children from zero to 17 years of age are transplanted each [...] all children and adolescents receiving lung transplants in Germany. Patients aged 18 and over are cared for by colleagues in cardiac, thoracic, transplantation and vascular surgery as well as pneumology

expertise in transplant immunology and immunomonitoring of native and genetically engineered grafts in small and large pre-clinical animal models. Research Fields Transplant Engineering Transplant Immunology [...] Institute of Transfusion Medicine and Transplant Engineering (MHH). After obtaining her doctoral degree in 2006, she continued to develop the research area of Transplant Engineering at the same institute. [...] Biology of xenogeneic cell and organ transplantation - from bench to bedside RESEARCH Her research aims to genetic engineer allogeneic cell-, tissue- and organ-transplants to prevent immune rejection and support

of Invisible Organs by transplant engineering of donor organs prior to transplantation can be the solution: for a life without rejection and immunosuppression, for better transplant survival, more quality [...] Transfusion Medicine and Transplant Engineering Head of department: Professor Dr. Rainer Blasczyk Blood Donor Service Give Blood - Save Lives Healthcare Services Wether Transplantation or Transfusion: here [...] and infection Teaching Teaching programs to understand transplantation and transfusion Welcome to the Institute of Transfusion Medicine and Transplant Engineering (ITT) The ITT focuses on biotechnology approaches

Institute of Transplant Immunology The Institute of Transplant Immunology is primarily dedicated to the patient-oriented investigation of the innate and adaptive immune response after transplantation of solid [...] effector cells for a rejection reaction after transplantation. On the other hand, they are transplanted to the organ, especially after lung or liver transplantation as "passenger cells", migrate into the r [...] Institute of Transplant Immunology Director: Prof. Dr. rer. nat. Christine S. Falk Telephone: 511 532-9745 E-Mail: Falk.Christine @ mh-hannover.de Assistance: Sonja Klein Telephone: 511 532-6904 E-Mail:

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

the first kidney transplant in 1968, the MHH has established itself as one of the most experienced and largest transplant centers in Germany and Europe. Today, kidney transplantation represents a standard [...] conventional transplantation of an organ referred via the waiting list, this also includes living donor kidney transplantation. Since the turn of the millennium, more than 3,300 kidney transplants have been [...] cooperation, especially with the colleagues of the Department of Nephrology at the MHH, kidney transplantation is offered for all common indications after appropriate evaluation of the cause of kidney failure

first liver transplant in Germany in 1973, the MHH has established itself as one of the most experienced and largest transplant centers in Germany and Europe. Today, liver transplantation represents a [...] conventional transplantation of an organ referred via the waiting list, this also includes living donor liver transplantation. Since the turn of the millennium, more than 2,000 liver transplants have been [...] cooperation, especially with our colleagues of the Department of Hepatology at the MHH, liver transplantation is offered for all common indications after appropriate evaluation of the cause of liver failure

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