On Sunday, 14 July, the transplantation team at Multi-Profile District Hospital for Active Treatment Dr. Stefan Cherkezov in Veliko Tarnovo registered the seventh donation in Bulgaria for 2019. On the next day, three people received the gift of life. The donor was a 63-year-old woman from Veliko Tarnovo who was admitted to the hospital’s intensive
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The first lung transplantation in Bulgaria took place in the Lozenets University Hospital. The surgery was performed by Professor Lyubomir Spasov, in collaboration with a team of German specialists. The recipient was a 70-year-old man. The family of a 40-year-old woman from Varna who had been declared brain dead gave the gift of life to
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Two man received a new lease of life after successful transplantations performed yesterday in the University Multi-Profile Hospital for Active Treatment Aleksandrovska and the Military Medical Academy, Sofia. The doctors at the Military Medical Academy performed liver transplantation on a 46-year-old man from Stara Zagora with end-stage liver disease, and UMPHAT Aleksandrovska’s transplant surgeons transplanted
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A tulip tree will be planted on 11 November 2019, at 11:00 a.m., near the National Palace of Culture, as a tribute to the people whose donated organs have saved others’ lives (on the literary club Peroto’s side, close to the new Simeon Radev monument). The tree is a sign of gratitude to their loved ones who
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Transplant coordinators from across the country met with medical students for the first time and shared issues and cases from their organ, tissue and cell donation and transplantation practice. During the event, the healthcare professionals discussed with their future colleagues the challenges they face and the decisions they make in their day to day work.
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Three men got a new lease of life thanks to the 12th donation completed so far this year in Bulgaria, after the family of a brain dead 43-year-old man made the compassionate decision to donate their loved one’s organs. On the very next day, 18 September, physicians from the Lozenets University Hospital successfully transplanted the
Read moreTwo successful kidney transplantations were performed by teams of the University Multi-Profile Hospital for Active Treatment Aleksandrovska. The recipients were a 58-year-old woman from Petrich on dialysis since 2011 and a 47-year-old man from the Pazardzhik region with chronic kidney failure. The patients are stable and recovering in the Anaesthesiology and Intensive Care Unit at
Read moreThe clinical teams of the Military Medical Academy (MMA) and the Lozenets University Hospital gave three Bulgarian citizens a chance for a more balanced and better life last night. The transplantations were made possible after a successful donation in Pleven managed by Dr. Georgi Dimitrov from the city’s University Hospital. Two men, 41 and 61
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Rosen Ivanov, executive director of Executive Agency “Medical Supervision” gave a welcome speech before representatives of the Sofia branch of the Association of Medical Students in Bulgaria (AMSB) during a lecture on transplantation that is a part of Ministry of Health and EAMS national campaign “Yes to Life”. Associate professor Ivelin Takorov, head of First
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The tenth donation in Bulgaria since the start of 2019 gave rise to an opportunity for a lung transplantation. On 7 August 2019, a 51-year-old woman was admitted to the University Multi-Profile Hospital for Active Treatment in Burgas and was declared brain dead. Immediate coordination actions established that there were no recipients on the Bulgarian waiting
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