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leader: Prof. Dr. Rainer Blasczyk Department / Institute: Institute of Transfusion Medicine and Transplant Engineering (ITT) A pandemic outbreak of a rapidly spreading emerging pathogen with a high mortality [...] Beutel Department / Institute: Department of Hematology, Hemostasis, Oncology and Stem Cell Transplantation To control the COVID-19 pandemic, it is essential to keep the number of new infections low. In

patients after surgery on the large vessels (aorta). Patients following a heart, lung or heart-lung transplant and the implantation of an artificial heart are also cared for by our interdisciplinary team. In [...] organ functions and intensive treatment of functional disorders (especially after operations and transplants). We are supported in the necessary daily data processing by an IT system tailored to our work

for the first time in 2004. In other words, I save half an ovary before chemotherapy and can then transplant it back into the woman's body afterwards if she no longer has ovarian function. As a third method [...] therapy, first carried out in 2004. Worldwide, 120 children have been born after ovarian re-transplantation, in Germany around 20. This is a fairly new method, but very promising and can also be used,

(autologous) tissue is often transplanted, which has been removed from another part of the body. The idea of tissue engineering is to be able to dispense with such transplants and still provide the patient

the interstitium in technical jargon. They can occur in many rheumatic diseases and after lung transplantation. The lung tissue becomes increasingly scarred and in many cases leads to pulmonary fibrosis,

Robert Zweigerdt, co-spokesperson for the programme from the MHH Clinic for Cardiac, Thoracic, Transplantation and Vascular Surgery. The networking of young, excellent scientists with clinical questions and

genotype, long suspected to be found only in rats, has now been detected in patients after organ transplantation. "Some infected people show no symptoms at all, while others can become severely ill," explains

es for Biotechnology and Artificial Organs (LEBAO) at the MHH Clinic for Cardiac, Thoracic, Transplantation and Vascular Surgery. His laboratory is also part of the REBIRTH Research Centre for Translational

complaints in the area of the visceral organs (abdominal organs) or receiving a kidney or liver transplant are treated on our ward. Holistic care is provided through nursing measures such as Treatment care