TTS Endorsed 3rd Joint Congress of the Turkish Transplantation Society and the Turkic World Transplantation Society Takes Place with Resounding Success

Since the past 25 years, TTS President Professor Mehmet Haberal and his team at Baskent University have been working with colleagues in the Mid Asia region to assist them in establishing successful treatments for end stage organ disease. In addition to the education and training of doctors and nurses from various fields, several transplant surgeries were also performed for the first time by Prof. Haberal and his team, such as the first pediatric liver transplants in Kazakhstan in 2014, and the first pediatric kidney transplant and the first living-related transplant between spouses that were performed in Tashkent, Uzbekistan in 2018.

In an effort to encourage further collaboration and to answer the needs of these states, the Turkic World Transplantation Society (TDTD) was founded in December 2014. The first congress of the Society was held shortly thereafter in Astana, Kazakhstan on May 20-22, 2015, followed by the first Joint congress with the Turkish Transplantation Society (TOND) in Baku, Azerbaijan in 2016 and then  in Ankara, Turkey in 2017. On October 10-11, 2019 the 3rd Joint Congress of TOND and TDTD took place with great success.

The Congress, which was organized and chaired by Prof. Haberal, boasted 24 invited speakers from the world over, all leaders in their respective fields and more than 450 participants from 25 countries. The meeting was endorsed by The Transplantation Society as well as the Ministry of Health of Uzbekistan, with Deputy Minister of Health Prof. Abdukhakim Khadjibaev acting as Chair of the Local Organizing Committee.

A group photo of Prof. Haberal with the invited speakers. 

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Heavy Alcohol Use Among Deceased Donors Does Not Impact Recipient Outcomes After Liver Transplantation

Arora SS, Chahal KS, Axley P, et al.
Transplantation: November 2018 Vol 102 Issue 11 p 1864 –1869

The assessment of donor risk factors is possibly the most arbitrary pathway in solid organ transplantation and largely differs among centres and even single surgeons. Authors explore here the impact of alcohol abuse in liver donors. The large UNOS database is used for the analysis of 7166 liver donors, reported as heavy drinkers and who donated their livers between 2002 and 2014. Importantly, a significant proportion of donors (24%) was already declined by the implanting team or surgeon simply based on past medical history and the parameter heavy drinking prior to procurement without further macroscopic evaluation of the liver tissue. Outcomes from liver transplantation of such donor livers was equally good compared to livers from non drinking donors with similar graft and patient survival, function and complications. Heavy drinking is a perfect example of a presumed too high donor risk, which lead to an early decline of donor organs, which are sometimes not even properly evaluated.

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TITLE: PSYCHOSOCIAL ASPECTS OF VCA
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