Liver, kidneys and corneas will be transplanted to patients in Athens and Thessaloniki
Gifts of life for three more fellow human beings, he offered a 68-year-old woman who was hospitalized at the University Hospital of Patras due to a cerebral hemorrhage.
In the early hours of Thursday, doctors, nurses and EMS were fully prepared to receive and transport the organs.
The team of the University Hospital led by the transplant coordinator of the hospital Pathologist – Intensivist, curator A’ of the Adult ICU, Vasilios Karamouzos and the deputy professor and director of the Adult ICU of the same hospital, Fotini Fligou took care of the procedures foreseen before the reception of the organs. This means informing the National Transplant Agency and sending all the information to be checked and to find suitable candidate recipients. Once the EOM gives the green light, the surgical team takes over.
Curator A’s team from Hippocrates removed it liver and via Araxos it was airlifted to Thessaloniki where it will be transplanted into a patient.
The team of assistant professor of surgery and specialist in transplants of the PGNP, Nikolaos Karydis, removed the kidneys, which will be transplanted into patients of “Evangelism” and the People’s Hospital of Athens.
The corneas were taken by the doctors of the Ophthalmology Clinic of the PGNP, headed by Menelaos Kanakis. The entire procedure was supervised by anesthesiologists led by Ms. Fligou.
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