Liver Transplantation
What are the most characteristic signs of liver diseases?
Jaundice
Dark colour of urine
Water retention in the abdominal area
Vomiting of blood
Tendency of the body to bruise easily
Gray or clay-colored stools
Pancreas Transplant
Pancreas transplant is a surgical intervention for transplantation of a healthy pancreas from a deceased donor to someone whose pancreas does not function regularly anymore.
Robotic surgery in kidney transplantation
Robotic surgery in kidney transplantation
The Da Vinci Robotic Surgery System, developed by NASA to remotely operate on astronauts in space, is being used at Florence Nightingale Hospital Istanbul for kidney transplants.
Kidney transplant from a living donor
When you come to our hospital for a kidney transplant, you must come together with your donor and bring identification documents and all documents of relationship, which must be certified with an apostille by the consular department of the Foreign Ministry, translated into Turkis
Procedure of the Ethics Committee for Transplantation
For all donors who are more distantly related than 4th generation and for those who have no family ties, the situation and the possibility of donation is assessed by the ethics committee of the Ministry of Health of the Republic of Turkey.
Transplantation in the Turkish laws related to kinship ties
According to Turkish civil law, there are two types of kinship – by blood line and by the line of the husband (wife). Kinship by blood lineage is by birth, with the spouse’s lineage being presumed to be consanguineous with all blood relatives on the husband’s (wife’s) side.