At the Clinical Hospital in Croatia, 12 organ transplants were performed in seven recipients in the last week, including the first transplant of five organs in one patient who received a stomach, small and large intestine, liver and pancreas.
"This type of operation is performed in only 11 European centers, while ten such operations are performed annually in the whole of Europe," said hospital director Mario Starešinić.
The patient who received five organs was born in 1969, is recovering well and his condition will be monitored for weeks by a team of doctors: anesthesiologists, surgeons, internists, gastroenterologists, nephrologists, pathologists and radiologists.
He suffers from thrombophilia, from which he had a stomach full of thick vessels, and at least one internal bleeding per day, which is why the only option was a transplant. This operation was also a retransplantation since the patient had already received a liver in 2023, reports Hina.
"This is the success of the whole team. Once the transplant starts, you don't have much time. All of us, from the drivers who transported the organs from Osijek to the surgeons, had to be perfectly coordinated. We managed to do everything in less than six hours," said Stipislav Jadrijević, the team leader, who performed the operation three days ago.
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