NewsWhore
06-19-2012, 02:00 PM
More than 700 organ transplants have been carried out in the Dominican Republic since the first kidney transplant in 1972. Most of the transplants are of kidneys.
As reported in Listin Diario, until 2007 most of the transplants used organs from living donors, but since 2007 the Plaza de la Salud General Hospital has been administering a program for obtaining previously donated organs from deceased donors. At Plaza de la Salud, 85 organ transplants have been carried out: 68 kidney transplants and 17 liver transplants. Also, 27 bone marrow transplants and 25 cornea transplants. Today more than half of the transplants are with donated organs.
As reported, 2,000 patients in the DR require dialysis and an estimated 1,000 to 1,500 need kidney transplants.
The first successful transplant in the country using a kidney from a living donor was carried out in 1986 by Dr Ashley Baquero at the Jose Maria Cabral y Baez public hospital in Santiago.
The first successful bone marrow transplant was conducted in 1993 at the Instituto de Oncologia Doctor Heriberto Pieter, by a team of hematologists led by Dr. Julio Amado Castanos Guzman, the current president of the board of Plaza de la Salud.
Plaza de la Salud and Cecanot, both of which are government medical centers, have announced that the country's first heart transplant is scheduled for this year.
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As reported in Listin Diario, until 2007 most of the transplants used organs from living donors, but since 2007 the Plaza de la Salud General Hospital has been administering a program for obtaining previously donated organs from deceased donors. At Plaza de la Salud, 85 organ transplants have been carried out: 68 kidney transplants and 17 liver transplants. Also, 27 bone marrow transplants and 25 cornea transplants. Today more than half of the transplants are with donated organs.
As reported, 2,000 patients in the DR require dialysis and an estimated 1,000 to 1,500 need kidney transplants.
The first successful transplant in the country using a kidney from a living donor was carried out in 1986 by Dr Ashley Baquero at the Jose Maria Cabral y Baez public hospital in Santiago.
The first successful bone marrow transplant was conducted in 1993 at the Instituto de Oncologia Doctor Heriberto Pieter, by a team of hematologists led by Dr. Julio Amado Castanos Guzman, the current president of the board of Plaza de la Salud.
Plaza de la Salud and Cecanot, both of which are government medical centers, have announced that the country's first heart transplant is scheduled for this year.
More... (http://www.dr1.com/index.html#5)