Department of Organ Transplantation (302986)

About the department

The Organ Transplant Center at the Tel Aviv Sourasky Medical Center is an internationally recognized medical facility for kidney, pancreas, liver and liver lobe transplantations. The Center is headed by Prof. Richard Nakache, one of the top surgeons in Israel. The Sourasky Medical Center is highly experienced in kidney-pancreas transplants. There are also performed laparoscopic live donor nephrectomies for kidney transplant.

Since organ transplantation is a complex procedure, the medical team, led by Prof. Richard Nakache, offers comprehensive transplantation planning and preparation services, as well as intensive post-transplant care. Patients receiving transplants and their living donors are supported by a multidisciplinary team of transplant surgeons, nephrologists, hepatologists, endocrinologists, coordinators, social workers and dieticians. All these specialists of the Tel Aviv Sourasky Medical Center work to achieve the best possible outcomes for the patient, while social workers help transplant patients and their families to cope with the transplant process.

The Organ Transplant Center at the Tel Aviv Sourasky Medical Center under the direction of Prof. Richard Nakache specializes in the following surgical procedures:

• Kidney transplantation
• Laparoscopic nephrectomy for kidney transplant
• Living kidney transplantation
• Liver transplantation
• Adult-to-adult right lobe live donor liver transplantation 
• Pancreas transplantation