Clinic Oberig: Center for liver, pancreas surgery and transplantation

Center for liver, pancreas surgery and transplantation — one of the few medical institutions in Ukraine where surgeons perform liver transplants. The head of the center, Oleg Kotenko, performed over 12 000 operations on the abdominal and retroperitoneal organs. The center’s specialists studied in the best surgical clinics in America, Japan, South Korea and France.

The advantage of the center’s surgeons is that they work in three areas at once: transplantology, oncology and surgery. Specialists accept both adult patients and children.

Oberig surgeons use the following methods:

• Japanese technique Enblock removal of a part of the liver in case of tumors;
• Japanese method «Mesenterical approach» for pancreatic cancer;
• The Japanese method of transplanting a part of the liver from a living donor;
• Liver resection by the German method «In vivo ex situ» using transplant technologies;
• Korean method of transplantation from 2 related donors;
• Preoperative transhepatic embolization and drainage by the Japanese method.

The center for liver, pancreas surgery and transplantation treats the following diseases:

• Benign and malignant neoplasms of the liver, pancreas, kidney, adrenal glands and retroperitoneal space;
• Cholangiocarcinoma of the bile ducts;
• Damage or narrowing of the bile ducts of the liver;
• Purulent formations, cysts or metastases in the liver;
• Pathology of the hepatobiliary system in children;
• Biliary atresia;
• Hepatocellular carcinoma;
• Complications of liver cirrhosis;
• Portal vein thrombosis and portal hypertension syndrome.