Liver Transplant Program

Coordinators:

Manlio Cirafici and Maria Dirkes

Telephone: +39 091 2192635

Fax: +39 091 2192288

Monday from 2:00 p.m. to 3:30 p.m.
Tuesday to Friday, 2:30 p.m. to 4:00 p.m.

The liver transplant program at IRCCS ISMETT was launched on July 31, 1999, and has become one of the leading programs in Europe in terms of patient survival, as confirmed by official data from the Italian National Transplant Center. Between 1999 and 2025, 1,872 liver transplants were performed, including 1,435 from deceased donors.

IRCCS ISMETT operates dedicated living-donor and pediatric liver transplant programs. In living-donor liver transplant, healthy individuals, usually related or unrelated family members, donate a portion of their liver to the recipient, taking advantage of the organ’s unique regenerative capacity. Strict selection criteria are established to ensure the donor’s safety and wellbeing. Since 1999, IRCCS ISMETT has performed 237 living-donor liver transplants.

IRCCS ISMETT also utilizes organs from marginal donors with the so-called “split liver” technique in which a liver from a deceased donor is divided into two segments. This allows one donor’s organ to be transplanted in two recipients: the right lobe for an adult patient and the left lobe for a pediatric patient.
Thanks to these innovative approaches, IRCCS ISMETT is recognized as one of the leading centers for pediatric liver transplantation..

Living Donor Liver Transplant Program

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