{"id":13374,"date":"2018-09-18T14:18:01","date_gmt":"2018-09-18T12:18:01","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/semmelweis.hu\/english\/?p=13374"},"modified":"2018-09-18T14:18:01","modified_gmt":"2018-09-18T12:18:01","slug":"saint-stephen-prize-awarded-to-the-varosmajor-heart-transplantation-group","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/semmelweis.hu\/english\/2018\/09\/saint-stephen-prize-awarded-to-the-varosmajor-heart-transplantation-group\/","title":{"rendered":"Saint Stephen Prize Awarded to the V\u00e1rosmajor Heart Transplantation Group"},"content":{"rendered":"

The Saint Stephen Prize was awarded to the Heart Transplantation Group of the V\u00e1rosmajor Heart and Vascular Center. Dr. B\u00e9la Merkely, rector of the University, and Dr. Zolt\u00e1n Szabolcs, university professor of the center and head of the heart transplantation program, received the recognition in the Knight’s Hall of the Esztergom Castle Museum. In his acceptance speech, Dr. B\u00e9la Merkely stated that the prize is dedicated to the memory of professor Dr. Zolt\u00e1n Szab\u00f3, who successfully performed Hungary\u2019s first heart transplant.<\/p>\n

Before the distribution of the award, Marcell Jankovics, president of the Foundation awarding the prize, recalled that last year marked the 25th anniversary of the first Hungarian heart transplant, and that over the past two and a half decades more than five hundred people had received a new heart in Hungary.<\/p>\n

\"\"<\/a>In his speech, Dr. Merkely spoke about how a near fifty to sixty surgical procedures are carried out by the program each year, making it the second largest clinical transplantation program in all of Europe. He dedicated the prize to professor Zolt\u00e1n Szab\u00f3, performer of the of the first Hungarian heart transplant who, Dr. Merkely said, was considered a mentor to them all.<\/p>\n

Dr. Szabolcs told us that in order for the clinic\u2019s heart transplantation program to run so successfully, the help of about 100 individuals is needed, ranging from surgeons to cardiologists to anaesthesiologists to post-care providers. The award was a representation of the joint work of the entire team \u2013 he stressed, adding that almost 20 team members from the clinic were present at the ceremony. The professor of heart surgery also pointed out that the clinic\u2019s 500th<\/sup> heart transplant was successfully completed the night before the award ceremony \u2013 a total of about 550 such surgical procedures had been completed in the entire country since 1992. The quality of transplantation work done by the clinic is well shown by the fact that among heart transplant recipients, the one-year survival rate of the procedure is more than ninety percent, he says. He believes that this particular award is especially significant as it comes from the civil sphere, meaning that people are aware of and recognize the hard work that the clinic\u2019s employees are carrying out 24 hours a day year-round.<\/p>\n

\"\"<\/a>The Saint Stephen Prize Foundation was a civil initiative established in 2001 by Antal Bihari, head of Esztergom District Television, to support cultural life of Hungary as a whole and to conserve Hungarian heritage. The statuette\u2019s design, which was given for the 16th<\/sup> time in 2018, was the work of Miklos Melocco. The prize-winners are selected each year by the Board of Trustees after a series of polling and online voting.<\/p>\n

This year\u2019s Saint Stephen Commemoration Medal was also presented at the ceremony. The medal was awarded to L\u00e1szl\u00f3 Dolgos, the leader of the \u201cHeart for a Heart\u201d Association, which has been around for the past 25 years.<\/p>\n

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P\u00e1lma Dobozi
\nSource: Semmelweis Egyetem, MTI
\nPhoto: Dr. Csaba Gr\u00f3zli
\nTranslation: Faye Gillespie<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

The Saint Stephen Prize was awarded to the Heart Transplantation Group of the V\u00e1rosmajor Heart and Vascular Center. Dr. B\u00e9la Merkely, rector of the University, and Dr. Zolt\u00e1n Szabolcs, university professor of the center and head of the heart transplantation program, received the recognition in the Knight’s Hall of the Esztergom Castle Museum. In his …<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":101420,"featured_media":13378,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[2,17],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-13374","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news","category-semmelweis-world"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/semmelweis.hu\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13374","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/semmelweis.hu\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/semmelweis.hu\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/semmelweis.hu\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/101420"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/semmelweis.hu\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=13374"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/semmelweis.hu\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13374\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":13380,"href":"https:\/\/semmelweis.hu\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13374\/revisions\/13380"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/semmelweis.hu\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/13378"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/semmelweis.hu\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=13374"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/semmelweis.hu\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=13374"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/semmelweis.hu\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=13374"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}