The 100th heart transplant in the Institute of Heart Diseases at the University Clinical Hospital in Wrocław – The Tissue Immunology Laboratory Team selected the donors for the transplant

The Laboratory of Tissue Immunology of the Medical Center of the IITD PAN has been cooperating since February 2021with the newly established heart transplantation center at the Jan Mikulicz-Radecki University Clinical Hospital in Wrocław. Over the last two years, the Laboratory Team has performed over 100 tests to select a heart donor for transplantation.

Our laboratory also performed tests for the 100th transplantation, which was carried out at the Institute of Heart Diseases of the University Clinical Hospital on May 18, 2023.

This research aims to analyze donor-recipient compatibility by performing cross-matching, which involves the analysis of the interaction of the deceased donor’s lymphocytes with the recipient’s serum. The examination lasts about 5-6 hours and is performed on-call. It consists in demonstrating the presence or absence of antibodies that may be present in the patient’s blood serum in relation to the histocompatibility antigens of the organ donor.