Transplantation medicine
The program of kidney transplantation started in the early 1970s at the University Hospital Center Zagreb, where the establishment of the Tissue Typing Center marked the beginning of a new era for the treatment of patients. Allogenic and autologous bone marrow transplantation programs started in the early 1980s, and programs of heart transplantation (University Hospital Center Zagreb and Dubrava University Hospital) and liver transplantation (University Hospital Center Zagreb and Merkur University Hospital) were routinely performed by the end of the 1990s. Transplantation medicine significantly contributed to the overall development of clinical medicine in Croatia, by triggering off the development of many diagnostic and therapeutic disciplines, such as transfusion medicine, microbiology, immunology, molecular biology, cytogenetics, biochemistry, pathology and cytology.
