\u201cViennese Academy of Lung Transplantation\u201d.<\/em><\/p>\n\u201cI would like to bring to your dedicated attention the work of Dr. Krisztina Czebe, pulmonologist, who has been taking care of Hungarian patients undergone lung transplantation for the past 15 years and the commitment of Dr. Ferenc R\u00e9nyi-V\u00e1mos, surgeon, who has carried out the extraction and implantation of several lungs and has made considerable efforts to have all the necessary infrastructure ready to start the Hungarian programme.\u201d, Dr. Walter Klepetko said.![\"RS42938_AG_20160109_0124-scr\"](\"https:\/\/semmelweis.hu\/english\/files\/2016\/02\/RS42938_AG_20160109_0124-scr.jpg\")
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In the past two decades the Department of Thoracic Surgery at the University of Vienna has become a hub for international cooperation in the area of lung transplantation. Launching a national lung transplantation programme was made possible by the Viennese centre not only in Hungary, but in the Czech Republic and Estonia as well. Patients from Croatia, Slovenia and Slovakia are still operated in Vienna and the organs are distributed according to the agreements signed by all the parties.<\/p>\n
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\u201cThe cooperation with Hungary continues as more complex cases, such as children, patients with pulmonary hypertension or higher risk will still be treated in Vienna in the near future.\u201d, said Dr. Walter Klepetko.\u00a0<\/p>\n
A successful lung transplantation programme requires good organisation, a strongly motivated team and a supportive administrative and legal background.<\/p>\n
\u201cNot only do all the circumstances prevail in Hungary but the highly efficient activity of the Hungarian National Blood Transfusion Service enables an extraordinary coordination of organs as well.\u201d, Dr. Walter Klepetko said. \u00a0<\/p>\n
P\u00e1lma Dobozi
Photo: G\u00e1bor Ancsin
Translated by: \u00c1gnes Raubinek<\/p>\n
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Professor Walter Klepetko is the director of the Department of Thoracic Surgery at the Medical University of Vienna and head of the Allgemeines Krankenhaus der Stadt Wien lung transplantation programme. Not only had Hungarian patients been treated here, but the Hungarian team had been preparing for the first Hungarian procedure at this department as well. Professor Klepetko was received by Dr. Gy\u00f6rgy Lang, Director of Semmelweis University\u2019s Department of Thoracic Surgery at OOI and Dr. Ferenc R\u00e9nyi-V\u00e1mos, associate professor and Head of the Department of Thoracic Surgery at OOI.\u00a0<\/p>\n