Medicine and Transplant Engineering All research at the Institute of Transfusion Medicine and Transplant Engineering is designated to biotechnology approaches in organ and stem cell transplantation to combat [...] Constanca @ mh-hannover.de Transplant Inflammation Management This area of research focuses on the principal mechanisms of inflammation in various clinical and experimental transplant settings. Understanding [...] international level. Among the allograft engineering developments, Invisible Organs created by transplant engineering are addressing the burden of rejection and the acute shortage of organs whereas alloCELL

Hepatocyte Transplantation Hepatocyte transplantation (HCTx) is a promising therapy option for the treatment of numerous inborn and acquired liver diseases. HCTx is much more cost efficient and a less [...] less invasive procedure than conventional liver transplantation. Furthermore, the method of cell transplantation enables the opportunity of pre-Tx modification of hepatocytes by technologies such as gene therapy [...] of HCTx in murine and porcine models in order to establish new strategies for efficient cell transplantation with optimized long-term outcome. Team PD Dr. med. Oliver Beetz PD Dr. med. Felix Oldhafer

BMW*, Geyer S, Epping J. Sex disparities in dialysis initiation, access to waitlist, transplantation and transplant outcome in German patients with renal disease-A population based analysis. PLoS One. [...] ABO incompatible renal transplantation – a systematic review and meta-analysis. Lancet. 2019;393:1059-72 Current third-party funding Geschlecht – Macht – Wissen in der Transplantation: Vom Mythos zur bio [...] C. Falk, S. Geyer, B.M.W. Schmidt Cardiovascular Disease after Transplantation – Causes and Prevention Förderer: BMBF (IFB Transplantation, Projekt CORE_1) Antragsteller: A. Melk, B.M.W. Schmidt, G. Beutel

Visceral and Transplant Surgery Robotic Surgery with da Vinci Xi In our department minimally invasive (robotic-assisted) surgeries for various indications are performed. Transplantation as living donation [...] Visceral and Transplant Surgery at MHH specializes in diseases of internal organs with a particular focus on the complex surgery of tumors and their daughter tumors. As the largest transplant center in Germany [...] donation in children and adults As the largest and most experienced transplant center in Germany, we also perform living liver donations in children and adults. "Treatment at a leading international center

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

Diagnosis of Acute Rejection in Renal Transplant Patients Using Mass Spectrometric Analysis of Urine Samples: A Multicenter Diagnostic Phase III Trial. Transplant Direct . 2022;8:e1316. DOI: 10.1097/TXD [...] Patient Survival After Kidney Transplantation: Important Role of Graft-sustaining Factors as Determined by Predictive Modeling Using Random Survival Forest Analysis. Transplantation . 2020;104:1095-1107. DOI: [...] Schwarz A and Gwinner W . Risk factors for death in kidney transplant patients: analysis from a large protocol biopsy registry. Nephrol Dial Transplant . 2019;34:1171-1181. DOI: 10.1093/ndt/gfy131 Current

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

Liver transplantation and normothermic machine perfusion Liver transplantation is the first-line treatment for several end-stage liver diseases. Current clinical strategies need to be optimised due to [...] to the persistent organ shortage, which leads to increased transplantation of organs with expanded donor criteria, and the often poor condition of the recipients. The aim of our group was to investigate [...] the use of mechanical perfusion for individualised optimisation of liver transplantation. Cold machine perfusion Donor organs are connected to an artificial circulation in which the organs are continuously

Head of Department Prof. Dr. Rainer Blasczyk Institute of Transfusion Medicine and Transplant Engineering Hannover Medical School Carl-Neuberg-Str. 1 30625 Hanover, Germany T +49 511 532 6700 +49 511 532 [...] mh-hannover.de Healthcare Services Dr. Michael Hallensleben Institute of Transfusion Medicine and Transplant Engineering Hannover Medical School Carl-Neuberg-Str. 1 30625 Hanover, Germany T +49 511 532 8870 [...] de Blood Products Preparative Apheresis Dr. Jörg Martens Institute of Transfusion Medicine and Transplant Engineering Hannover Medical School Carl-Neuberg-Str. 1 30625 Hanover, Germany T +49 511 532 6776

possible. For the presentation in our transplantation outpatient clinic, both the recipient and the donor need their own referral, both before and after the transplantation. This must ALWAYS be made out to [...] t with our experienced specialists in nephrology prior to transplantation. For the operation, the recipient and donor arrive at our transplant ward 85 one day before the scheduled date with an inpatient [...] Living donation coordination The first successful kidney transplant was performed in Boston in 1954 after a living kidney donation in which a twin (Richard and Ronald Herrick) donated for his brother.