Pancreas, Gall bladder and Liver Surgery and transplantation
- Liver transplantation was first started in the Royal Medical Services back in 2004, where the Royal Medical Services invited a Turkish team dedicated to perform the first liver transplant from a living donor.
- This was followed by sending a full medical team of surgeons along with radiologists and nursing staff to Turkey, Britain and Germany.
- In 2009, the Royal Medical Services conducted the first liver transplant from a living donor in its own team.
- The unit has so far performed 97 liver transplants, including 6 liver transplant operations from brain-dead donors.
- The success rate of liver transplants in the Royal Medical Services is equivalent to global rates.
Achievements
- Our Pancreas and Liver Surgery and Transplantation Unit and pancreas, in addition to the transplant procedures, performs many state of the art procedures which are exclusively performed in the Royal Medical Services, such operations include major operations such as the excision of very large liver tumors which may require excision of 80% of liver in selected tumors.
- Our Unit performs major operations to excise liver and pancreatic tumors for over fifty patients a year.
- Our Unit in collaboration with the Interventional Radiology Department have performed excision of liver tumors at multiple stages which include embolization of the artery supplying the tumor which will reduce the size of the tumor followed by a second stage where tumor excision is performed.
- Our unit also performs Liver transplantation for children in weights exceeding 10 kg. As well as, excision of large hepatic tumors in children which are referred from all public and private hospitals.
Aspirations
- The Pancreas and Liver Surgery and Transplantation Unit is yearning to set up a special organ transplantation unit from brain-dead donors, mimicking those found in developed countries aiming to encourage the donation of patients with brain death and we are in the process of setting up a mobile team to harvest organs in hospitals throughout the Kingdom.
- Establishing a national registry of patients suffering from liver cirrhosis all over the country. The unit already has a registry with a waiting list for all Royal Medical Services’ patients in need of liver transplant.
FAQs
- What is the cost of liver transplants in the Royal Medical Services?The cost of liver transplants is about 70,000 JD “seventy thousand Jordanian Dinars” equivalent of a 100,000 $ “hundred thousand dollars” , this includes the patient and donor’s preparation for the operation, the operation itself and a two weeks hospital stay after the operation.
Note that the operation is carried out free of charge to beneficiaries of the Jordanian Armed Forces.
- How liver is made available to a patient suffering from cirrhosis of the liver?
A liver can be donated from patient’s family only. No organs are accepted from beyond relatives of first or second degree.
- What are the expected donor liver complications?
The rate of complications of liver transplantation may reach rate of 20%, but most of these complications are simple and mortality rate doesn’t exceed half percent, but fortunately not a single case of donor death occurred in any operation performed in the Liver Transplant Unit.
Meet our Staff
Dr.Sameer Smadi Consultant in General, Pancreas & liver Surgery & Transplantation and Head of the unit
Dr.Khaled Alsoair Consultant in General, Pancreas & liver Surgery & Transplantation.
Dr.Ashraf Faiz Fa'ouri Consultant in General, Pancreas & liver Surgery & Transplantation.
Dr.Sahem Al Gsous Senior Specialist in General, Pancreas & liver Surgery & Transplantation.
Dr.Tarek Saleh Almnazel Specialist in General, Pancreas & liver Surgery & Transplantation.
Dr.Raed Abdul Rahman Specialist in General, Pancreas & liver Surgery & Transplantation.
Dr.Abd Al-Hamid Aldbosh Specialist in General, Pancreas & liver Surgery & Transplantation.
Dr.Alaa Ahmed Al Zoubi Specialist in General, Pancreas & liver Surgery & Transplantation.
Dr.Mohammad Aljbour Specialist in General, Pancreas & liver Surgery & Transplantation.
Contact us:
General Surgery Secretary: call +962-65-804-804 Ext. 64812
Jordanian Royal Medical Services: call +962-65-804-804 & dial the extensions below:
Phone Name Post
64600 Dr.Sameer Smadi Head of Pancreas and Liver Surgery & Transplant Unit
64815 Dr.Khalid Ajarmeh Pancreas and Liver Surgery & Transplant