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Donor livers were taken to the Vilnius Santara clinics from Riga, Latvia by helicopter from the State Border Guard Service to the clinic patient who was awaiting his transplant.
This is not the first time that a helicopter, which urgently transports organs to patients awaiting transplantation, has landed in the middle of a street in Vilnius.
In Latvia, an international organ donation process was started after a person was diagnosed with brain death in one of Riga’s hospitals and obtained the consent of their relatives. When Latvians did not find a suitable recipient for donor liver transplantation in their country, they were offered to Lithuanian recipients, a press release was released.
The office coordinator began this international organ exchange process on June 16, after coordinating all the necessary details with teams of doctors and laboratories in Lithuania and Latvia, and began to organize the logistics of donor organ transport.
This morning, due to the thick fog rising from the Baltic Sea, the helicopters were unable to fly, causing the VUL Santara clinics medical team on June 17. in the morning (4 a.m.) an ambulance rushed to Riga.
A helicopter from the State Border Guard Service (hereinafter SBGS) of Lithuanian doctors, which successfully completed the liver harvesting procedure, was waiting at the Riga airport and flew back to Vilnius at 2.45 p.m. It landed in the Santariškės traffic ring, near the Santara clinics.
Cooperation with Latvia in the field of donation and transplantation has been developing for several years.
This year, Latvia donated a heart to recipients in our country, in 2019 it donated 7 donor organs: 1 heart and 6 kidneys. Lithuania donated 1 heart and 2 kidneys to Latvia in 2018.
Earlier this year, police officers had to stop traffic because a donor’s heart had been flown in from Latvia by helicopter. At the time, police officers said it was necessary to ensure the smoothest procedure possible, since it could only take five hours from the donor’s heart to the transplant.
This year, 50 potential donors have been registered in our country (brain death has been reported, after which organ donation is possible). Of these, 21 became effective (that is, organs and tissues were removed).
This year, 63 transplants were performed: 41 kidneys (including 2 transplants from a living donor), 3 heart transplants, 9 liver and 10 cornea.
Lithuania participates in international organ exchange: when there is no recipient in your country for whom a donor organ would be suitable, it is offered to recipients treated in foreign clinics. Two livers, lungs, and heart were removed this year. A heart from Latvia was brought to Lithuania.
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