The present article will give a related overview of the current background of the field of donor recruitment and transplantation medicine. The transplantation Law that came into effect on the 01.07.2007 has caused numerous changes in the identification ...

The central issue in organ transplantation remains suppression of allograft rejection. Immunosuppression can be achieved by depleting lymphocytes, diverting lymphocyte traffic, or blocking lymphocyte response pathways. Immunosuppressive drugs include ...

Renal transplantation has become an established option for renal replacement therapy in many patients with end stage renal disease. Living donation is a possibility for timely transplantation, hampered in 20 % of all possible donors and recipients ...

Living kidney donation was started in the seventies in Switzerland and since the year 2000 all transplant centers in Switzerland perform this procedure. It shows excellent long-term results in terms of graft and patient survival with an acceptable risk ...

Due to the recent changes in reimbursement politics in islet and pancreas transplantation in Switzerland, the question, which patients with type 1-diabetes mellitus get which form of beta-cell replacement, is of utmost importance for referring physicians. ...

During the past two decades, orthotopic liver transplantation (OLT) emerged to the treatment of choice for patients with end-stage liver disease. In Switzerland, about 100 liver transplantations are performed every year, while the shortage of cadaveric ...

Improvement of heart failure therapy has led to a far better survival and quality of life of patients. Treatment of the underlying disease, patient education and improvement of compliance and consequent upgrading of medical heart failure therapy often ...

To date, lung transplantation is an established therapeutic modality for advanced lung disease. Post-transplant survival is excellent, but depends on sophisticated medical follow-up and treatment by a dedicated and experienced multidisciplinary lung ...

Hand transplantation has been indicated in selective patients after traumatic upper extremity amputation and only performed in a few centers around the world for the last decade. In comparison to solid organ transplantation, there is a challenge to ...

Organ transplant candidates should be optimally screened before transplantation and latent and chronic infections treated. Vaccination status should be reviewed to ensure full compliance with the recommended vaccinations schedule. After transplantation, ...