(Photo: KBC Zagreb)
ZAGREB, 15 March (Hina) – On the occasion of World Kidney Day, observed on 11 March, a medical team from the KBC Zagreb hospital presented the immunoadsorption method allowing organ transplantation in patients in whom such a procedure would not be possible during the COVID-19 pandemic.
KBC Zagreb is the first hospital in Croatia to apply the immunoadsorption method to remove specific pathological antibodies in the process of transplantation while preserving the protective bodies in the patient’s blood to protect them against infections. In that way the patient is not exposed to the additional risk of infectious complications, the head of the hospital’s Kidney Transplantation Department, Nikolina Bašić Jukić, told a press conference.