Taiwan’s surgeons are capable of modifying donated organs and making them more suitable for transplantation, surgeon Chu Shu-hsun (朱樹勳) said yesterday.
“It is not rocket science,” said Chu, adding that he had completed more than 10 such procedures.
Chu, a cardiac surgeon who is also superintendent of the Far Eastern Memorial Hospital, made the remarks during a press conference at the Taiwan Surgical Association yesterday.
Chu said that it was often difficult to find organs suitable for patients in need of a transplant. Therefore, the remodeling of available organs to make them suitable has become an important skill for surgeons.
The most common problem he experienced was the difference in heart size, Chu said. He said that the best way to deal with this was to wait for the next one.
“But, sometimes, the patient will not have much time, and we have to overcome such problems,” Chu said.
Lee Po-huang (李伯皇), chairman of the association, is a liver transplant surgeon. He said that donated livers were usually in bad shape.
“In the past, we had to give up on the surgery if the liver had angiogenesis problems. But now it is possible to clean up the liver by eliminating the additional blood vessels and complete the transplant,” Lee said.
The association is organizing a seminar in Taipei for more than 5,000 surgeons from different Asian countries this weekend.
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