Surgery

A Turkish university's undertaking of five simultaneous liver transplant surgeries on June 12 may set a Guinness World Record for the greatest number performed at the same time.

Turkey will host the annual congress of the International Liver Transplantation Society in 2020, an official said on June 6.

Dr John Elefteriades has served as a director of cardiothoracic surgery at Yale and is among the most clinically active academic cardiac surgeons in the United States.

In 2021 the first pulmonary transplantation in Bulgaria should be carried out, said Prof. Gencho Nachev, Executive Director of St. Catherine Hospital.

1,800 people have sought medical help in the emergency department of University Hospital Pirogov since April 26, the institution said, quoted by NOVA TV.

Its teams had difficult shifts in the Easter holidays. Of those 1,800 people, 260 had to remain in the hospital. The number of admitted patients with no health insurance was 15.

Home physicians start training in Austria for lung transplantation. The training will take place in May at the Department of Thoracic Surgery at the Medical University in Vienna. It is part of the agreement on the qualification of the staff of the European Transit Organization Eurotransplant.

An Athens surgeon accused of demanding an under-the-table payment from a cancer patient was released from pretrial custody on Monday and ordered to pay 20,000 euros in bail.

Every year five Bulgarians who need a lung transplant will be operated in a clinic in Vienna, said Minister of Health Kiril Ananiev after a meeting with Prof. Walter Klepetko who leads the thoracic surgery clinic at the university hospital in Vienna, Focus News Agency reports.

Surgeons from Bulgaria's Pleven have successfully performed two oncology surgeries, using the latest generation of the Da Vinci robotic system, announced the Bulgarian National Radio. 

BSP Leader Kornelia Ninova was urgently taken to Pirogov on Thursday due to an abscess, the party's press center announced.

There was surgical intervention, and the abscess was open and drained. Ninova did not ask to stay in the hospital and was sent for home treatment.