Contact +32 16 34 87 27 +32 16 34 87 43 transplantatiecoordinatie@uzleuven.be Contact form Address UZ Leuven gasthuisberg campusAbdominal transplantsurgery and coordinationHerestraat 493000 LeuvenDirections and services News and events Leuven surgeons transplant four organs during one procedure in a toddler 20 December 2023 A team of UZ Leuven doctors has recently replaced all abdominal organs in a toddler for the first time in Belgium: stomach, liver, pancreas as well as the small intestine were transplanted in one procedure. The young patient was successfully operated on and is doing well. UZ Leuven celebrates 5,000 kidney transplants 2 February 2022 Mid-January 2022, the 5,000th kidney transplant took place at UZ Leuven. Prof. dr. Dirk Kuypers, head of the nephrology department, looks back on a couple of historic innovations that resulted in the excellence of the Leuven kidney transplant care programme. First lung transplant in Benelux for critically ill COVID-19 patient 4 March 2021 A COVID-19 patient on the intensive care ward with irreparably damaged lungs was given new lungs on 1 Januari 2021 in the UZ Leuven transplant centre. It is the first time in the Benelux that someone on an intensive care COVID-19 ward gets a lung transplant. Load more news and events Last edit: 21 December 2023