Patients receive heart, kidneys, corneas and bone tissues from a cadaveric donor – National – ABC Color

A young mother of 24 years was the recipient of one of the kidneys of 22 year old cadaveric donorwho was diagnosed with brain death after a high speed motorcycle accidentaccording to the doctor Agustín Saldivar.

“Happily, the relatives of the 22-year-old patient, who had suffered a high speed motorcycle accidentcon head traumadespite all the efforts of colleagues at the trauma hospital, is diagnosed brain deathfrom that moment the operation of the fellow prosecutors of the STUBBORNNESS “They are almost detectives, trying to reach the relatives who agreed to donate all the organs that could be of use to the people,” he indicated.

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He insisted that a young 24-year-old mother today received the grace of a 22-year-old person, “a humanitarian hero”, as he described it.

Transplants are almost routine

Dr. Saldívar highlighted that approximately between 70 and 80 people are involved in each transplant and highlighted that much progress has been made in the country in the matter.

“From anecdotal transplants we are making this something routine. We like that the culture of donation continues more, because there are people who are on the waiting list and there are more than 80 people waiting for a kidney. We have more than 120 waiting for maybe a cornea, liver too, hearts are around the numbers 6 too,” she said.

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He added that today, at 1:50 p.m., the heart was ablated by the team of heart surgeons at the San Jorge hospital, and the rest of the organs, kidneys, were ablated, one at the Clínicas hospital and the other at the hospital. headquarters of the Social Security Institute. The bone tissues were taken by the Bone Tissue Bank of the Hospital de Clínicas and the corneas were ablated by the Oca del Valle foundation.

Kidney transplant 168 from Clinics

The doctor highlighted that it is a maximum manifestation of love that a person can demonstrate by leaving as a testimony of not burying the organs that could be of use to other people who have terminal organs.

The Clinic team performed the kidney transplant which is number 168 since the reactivation of the program, which occurred in 2014. The recipient of the kidney transplant with a cadaveric donor is a young woman of 24 years oldhousewife, diagnosed with chronic kidney disease of unknown etiology, for which she had been receiving hemodialysis treatment for 3 years and 9 months.

The doctor Norma Arevaloa member of the team, said that the patient suffered a lot, she went through many things, apart from hemodialysis as well, she received peritonal hemodialysis and returned to hemodialysis, she went on the list a few months ago, and now she is happily transplanted.