the history of Argentinian medicine is a new paradigm: from living donor lung transplants will be accepted for the first time. The case that made it possible is the cordovan girls Maribel and Marisol Oviedo, aged 19, who suffer from cystic fibrosis.
According to Clarin was told by Deputy Head of heart and lung transplant of the Fundación Favaloro, Alejandro Bertolotti, this alternative to transplants will be allowed only “as a last resort and once that”have been exhausted the possibilities of finding a cadaveric donor”.
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Lungs through donor living transplants was a practice that was not permitted in the country but in neighbouring countries, such as Brazil.
Maribel Oviedo received a lung transplant in the Brazilian city of Porto Alegre. His sister Marisol, also suffers from cystic fibrosis and lung lobes needed to survive.
The twins had to be intercepted in Brazil, that lack of cadaveric donors, after a long wait the Incucai lists, they had to resort donor alive, alternative to that until today it was prohibited by the Argentine legislation.
Maribel, who presented the most serious box, were introduced two lung lobes donated by parents, Mariana Koval and Ernesto Oviedo, who recover favorably after the operation at the Hospital of the Holy charity of Porto Alegre.
