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Organ Transplantation Center

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Organ Transplantation Center

A Full Spectrum of Experts Working for You

Samsung Medical Center's Organ Transplantation Center operates a one-stop clinic, bringing together highly specialized doctors, coordinators, and nurses to optimize patient care before and after transplantation. The center comprises dedicated teams for liver, kidney, pancreas, heart, and lung transplantation, working in close collaboration with the transportation support team, donor management team, and tissue bank.

Seamless Coordination, Exceptional Care

The Organ Transplantation Center provides a comprehensive, streamlined approach to organ transplantation, including:

- Pre-transplant consultation
- Patient counseling
- Enrollment on the organ recipient list
- Post-transplant outpatient follow-up
- Patient education
- Medication management

To minimize biliary complications following living donor liver transplantations, we have adopted advanced techniques in biliary anastomosis, significantly reducing complication rates. We are also actively engaged in ABO-incompatible transplantations, achieving a 100% success rate to date. In 2013, we performed Korea’s first kidney transplantation without the need for immunosuppressors by inducing immunologic tolerance?markedly improving patients' quality of life.

Our expertise extends globally, assisting other centers in developing and performing transplant programs. We have conducted liver transplants at Dar Al Fouad Hospital, Egypt and Hanoi National Children's Hospital, Vietnam and helped these centers start a liver transplant program. Faculty members from Egypt, Vietnam, India, Pakistan, Uzbekistan, China, Mongolia, Mexico, Singapore and the United States have visited our center for training and program development.

Specialized Expertise

Major Areas of Treatment

- Liver transplantation
- Kidney transplantation
- Pancreas transplantation
- Heart transplantation
- Lung transplantation

Latest Treatment Methods

- Laparoscopic hepatectomy in living liver donors
- Kidney transplantation with induced immunologic tolerance
- Donor clinic services

Where Innovation Becomes Standard of Care

Recent trends in clinical research:

- Identification and analysis of significant genes in hepatocellular carcinomas to discover novel chemotherapy targets
- Genomic studies of type B hepatitis after liver transplantation
- Immunotherapy research for hepatocellular carcinomas
- Studies on inducing immunologic tolerance using primate kidney transplantation models
- Research using humanized mouse models