4th Transplant Masterclass: “Challenges and opportunities in the organ donation and transplantation process”

A few of the extremely important topics to be addressed include the following: the immunology mechanisms and the relevant assessment for solid organ transplantation, the clinical support of donors and the optimization of their organs’ function, the brain death diagnosis criteria, the ways to approach the donors’ families, the deployment of the transplantation coordination process, as well as the challenges and the opportunities to save even more lives.

This year’s main theme will be the “Challenges and opportunities in the organ donation and transplantation process”, addressing among other topics, the detection and evaluation of the suitability of a potential donor, the update to the brain death diagnosis criteria, the ways to approach the families of potential donors, as well as more specific issues relevant to the transplantation process.

Transplant Masterclasses is an innovative program developed under the scientific guidance of the Hellenic Transplant Organization (HTO) and with the collaboration of the Onassis Cardiac Surgery Center (OCSC) within the framework of the National Initiative on Organ Donation and Transplantation undertaken and implemented by the Onassis Foundation.

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