University doctors took part in the Eurasian-Iranian Congress

At the invitation of transplantologist Ali Malek-Hosseini, BSMU employees took part in the Eurasian-Iranian Congress on Organ Transplantation in the city of Shiraz (Iran).

The congress discussed pressing issues of transplantation and ways to improve the quality of transplantation care.

BSMU employees took part in the Congress:

Galiullin Danil Fayazovich - surgeon of the BSMU Clinic, associate professor of the Department of Surgical Diseases of the Faculty of Medicine;

Ibatullin Artur Alberovich - Head of the Center for Coloproctology of the BSMU Clinic, surgeon of the highest category, oncologist, coloproctologist, MD, professor;

Zagitov Artur Rausovich - urologist, MD, head of the course of Additional Education Institution, Department of Urology.

It should be noted that Iran has a large base in the field of transplantation - 28 centers for kidney transplantation, 13 centers for liver transplantation, 10 centers for heart transplantation, 3 centers for lung transplantation, 5 centers for pancreas transplantation, 1 center for small intestine transplantation and 22 centers for the purchase of tissues and organs.

Interesting fact:

To date, every hospital in Iran is a donor hospital.

Iran has a law on requested consent (as well as in the USA, Germany, Spain, Latvia, Ukraine). In Russia, the presumption (not asked) of consent to the removal of organs (Austria, Belgium, France, Denmark, Sweden, Belarus).

For the removal of organs, consent is required - either intravital, from the donor himself, or posthumous - from his relatives. About 90 percent of citizens give such consent.

To save another after his own death is an honorable mission that is remembered during his lifetime.

Currently, Iran is the only country in the world where organ sales (live unrelated donation) are allowed, so the country has neither a transplant queue nor a shortage of available organs.

In 1988, commercial lifetime kidney donation was legalized in Iran, a practice that became known internationally as the "Iranian Model."

As part of the congress, the Head of the Intestinal Rehabilitation Department of Abu Ali Sina Hospital in Shiraz said that intestinal transplantation is the least successful and statistically transplanted operation. He noted that in Iran, from 8 to 10 intestinal transplants are carried out annually, and a total of 111 operations have been carried out since the implementation.

Iran is the leader in intestinal transplantation in Asia and the only center performing so many transplants (China - 40, Japan - 42, 43 in South Korea, less than 10 in Turkey and less than 100 in America).

Our employees managed to visit the University Surgical Clinic, the research center of the University and present the scientific and educational potential of BSMU.

The congress was attended by about 500 people from Armenia, Russia, USA, Belgium, Italy, Spain, France, Austria, Japan, Kuwait, Lebanon, Iraq, Iran, Tajikistan, Kazakhstan, Uzbekistan, India and Belarus.