40 Years Interdisciplinary Transplant Center at the University Medical Center Schleswig-Holstein, Campus Lübeck - Team Spirit at its Best

Abstract

In transplantation medicine, recent decades have seen an increase in the number of interdisciplinary organ centres that can guarantee optimal care before, during and after the transplantation of solid organs. Since the foundation of our centre 40 years ago, the interdisciplinary approach between transplant surgery and nephrology has been practised at the Lübeck site, allowing a centre specialising in kidney transplantation to develop. In addition to the medical-technical aspects, an organisational and structural-infrastructural centre could be built up, which became a model for interdisciplinary transplantation centres. A high level of expertise in minimally invasive surgical techniques together with specialised transplantation nephrology form the basis for the highest possible patient satisfaction.