764 Organs transplants are performed by hospitals in the community of Madrid in 2012.

– last year there were 236 donor organs, the all-time high in the community

-the positive response of the families to the donation reached 86 per cent

MadridJanuary 2013- hospitals in the network of the Ministry of health of the community of Madrid carried out a total of 764 transplants of organs in 2012, one 3% increase over the previous year, and that accounted for over 18% of the national total. Madrid has been the community carried out the largest number of cardiac, pancreatic, intestinal, multiviscerales, kidney transplants from cadaver donor and patients in pediatric age.

At the same time, the number of donor organs reported in the community of Madrid rose 10% up to 236, which is the highest figure registered in the region. The increase in donors, despite the steady decline in mortality, is produced by the large proportion of families who support the donation, which reaches 86%, compared with 82% in 2011, and medical advances that make viable donations that years ago were not.

These and other data has been provided by the Counselor of health, Javier Fernández-Fuenlabrada, accompanied by the director general of hospitals, Antonio Burgueño, and transplant, Carlos Chamorro, regional coordinator in the presentation of the balance of donation and transplantation in the community of Madrid in 2012.

The community hospitals have made 432 kidney transplants, 6% more than the previous year, 54 heart, 10% more pancreatic 27, 59% more than in 2011. The number of intestinal transplants has gone from 8 to 9, the lung is identical to 2011, with a total of 49 transplants, and the liver have fallen by 9% and 194 have been.

Hospital 12 de Octubre has led national activity in renal and pancreatic transplantation Gregorio Marañón of infant heart transplantation and the La Paz Hospital’s child renal and liver transplant, in this case with the collaboration of the Ramón y Cajal.

First region that performs all organ transplants

After the recent first lung transplant child registered in the region, carried out by professionals of the hospital Puerta de Hierro and La Paz, the community of Madrid is the first Spanish region which has made all types of organ transplants, already are in adult or children’s patients.

This comprehensive portfolio of services, including the Pediatric field, allowed that in 2012 83 organ transplants made in children, the largest number of all the autonomous communities, a 34 per cent compared to the previous year. In particular, the La Paz Hospital, with 70 transplants in children, was the Spanish hospital with more Pediatric planting activity in 2012.

Continued world leadership in donation to heart stood in terms of the maximum record of 236 donations, most of the growth in the number of donors has been experienced in cardiac deaths, which have increased by 43%, with a total of 96 donors in 2012, along with 140 donor in brain death. In this field, the heart-beating donation, community is a national and global leader thanks to the collaboration and existing coordination between the emergency services community with hospitals.

Madrid boasts of two hospitals with the largest number of donors, October 12, with 63 donors, Hospital and clinical San Carlos, 53, are Spanish with highest number of donor hospitals. The clinical San Carlos is also the national leading centre in heart-beating donation. Madrid workplaces are helping to expand donation programs stopped heart, through the training of professionals of hospitals of other autonomous communities.

All of this activity was made possible by the generosity of the families of donors and the invaluable assistance of the judges, forensic, forces of public order and of the numerous groups of non-health professionals involved in the donation and transplantation activity.