SNUH Performs over 2,000 Kidney Transplants to the World’s Best Standard
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Date : 2015-05-28
Seoul National University Hospital Performs over 2,000 Kidney Transplants to the World’s Best Standard
The Kidney Transplant team of Seoul National University Hospital (SNUH) has performed 2,086 kidney transplants among which 329 were pediatric cases. In terms of the team’s cumulative performance records, the 10-year survival rates of their kidney transplant cases and transplanted kidneys are 90% and 85% respectively, which are way higher than the 77% and 59% in the United Status as published by the United Network for Organ Sharing (UNOS). Notably, the team’s success rate is close to 100% in highly challenging kidney transplant cases such as ABO-incompatible kidney transplant (97.8%) where the kidney of a donor whose blood type is different is transplanted, and two organs or more are transplanted together.
In particular, the SNUH spearheads kidney transplantation in Korea not only for adults but also for children. Out of the 2,086 kidney transplants, 329 were performed on children. This figure accounts for half of the total kidney transplant cases for children in Korea and it can be said that the SNUH saved one out of two children in need of kidney transplants in Korea.
Lim (aged 10) received high-blood medication from 2011 and his kidney function went from bad to worse due to his family history of chronic kidney conditions. Finally, he recouped his health after having his mother’s kidney transplanted on January 21 this year. His elder sister also had her father’s kidney transplanted at the age of 12 in 2007 for chronic kidney conditions. Thanks to the parents’ love for their children and the devotion and commitment of the medical staff at the Seoul National University Hospital, the Lim family now leads a healthy life because of the four parents’ kidneys.
Currently in the Organ Transplantation Center of the SNUHl, medical staff members of various departments including Professors Ahn Curie, Kim Yon-su, and Lee Ha-jeong from the Department of Internal Medicine, Professor Yang Jae-seok from the Organ Transplantation Center, Professors Ha Jong-won and Min Sang-il from the Department of Surgery, and Professors Ha Il-soo and Kang Hee-gyung from the Pediatric Department are collaborating with each other to usher in a new chapter of kidney transplantation.
▲ Lim Tae-yeol’s family and Medical Staff at the Kidney Transplant and Organ Transplantation Center
The Kidney Transplant team of Seoul National University Hospital (SNUH) has performed 2,086 kidney transplants among which 329 were pediatric cases. In terms of the team’s cumulative performance records, the 10-year survival rates of their kidney transplant cases and transplanted kidneys are 90% and 85% respectively, which are way higher than the 77% and 59% in the United Status as published by the United Network for Organ Sharing (UNOS). Notably, the team’s success rate is close to 100% in highly challenging kidney transplant cases such as ABO-incompatible kidney transplant (97.8%) where the kidney of a donor whose blood type is different is transplanted, and two organs or more are transplanted together.
In particular, the SNUH spearheads kidney transplantation in Korea not only for adults but also for children. Out of the 2,086 kidney transplants, 329 were performed on children. This figure accounts for half of the total kidney transplant cases for children in Korea and it can be said that the SNUH saved one out of two children in need of kidney transplants in Korea.
Lim (aged 10) received high-blood medication from 2011 and his kidney function went from bad to worse due to his family history of chronic kidney conditions. Finally, he recouped his health after having his mother’s kidney transplanted on January 21 this year. His elder sister also had her father’s kidney transplanted at the age of 12 in 2007 for chronic kidney conditions. Thanks to the parents’ love for their children and the devotion and commitment of the medical staff at the Seoul National University Hospital, the Lim family now leads a healthy life because of the four parents’ kidneys.
Currently in the Organ Transplantation Center of the SNUHl, medical staff members of various departments including Professors Ahn Curie, Kim Yon-su, and Lee Ha-jeong from the Department of Internal Medicine, Professor Yang Jae-seok from the Organ Transplantation Center, Professors Ha Jong-won and Min Sang-il from the Department of Surgery, and Professors Ha Il-soo and Kang Hee-gyung from the Pediatric Department are collaborating with each other to usher in a new chapter of kidney transplantation.
▲ Lim Tae-yeol’s family and Medical Staff at the Kidney Transplant and Organ Transplantation Center