Hospitals in the Madrid 764 organ transplants performed in 2012.

– last year there were 236 donor organs, the historical maximum in the community

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

Madrid. January of 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 which involve more than 18% of the national total. Madrid has been the community that has made 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 recorded in the Comunidad de Madrid increased 10% to reach the 236, which is the highest figure recorded in the region. The increase in donors, despite the steady decline in mortality, is produced by the large proportion of families who support donation, reaching 86%, compared to 82% in 2011, and the medical advances that make viable donations that years ago were not.

These and other data have been provided by the Health Minister, Javier Fernández-Lasquetty, accompanied by the director general of hospitals, Antonio Burgueño, and transplants, Carlos Chamorro, regional coordinator in the presentation of the balance of organ donation and transplantation in the community of Madrid in 2012.

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 9 to 8, the lung is identical to 2011, with a total of 49 transplants, and the liver declined 9% and 194 have been.

Hospital 12 de Octubre has led national activity in renal and pancreatic transplantation Gregorio Marañón of infant heart transplant and the La Paz Hospital’s children’s 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 hospitals La Paz and Puerta de Hierro, the Comunidad de Madrid is the first Spanish region which has made all forms of organ transplants, already are in adult or children’s patients.

This comprehensive portfolio of services, including the Pediatric field, has allowed that 2012 83 organ transplants has been conducted 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.

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

Madrid has two hospitals with higher number of donors, October 12, with 63 donors, Hospital and Clínico San Carlos, 53, are Spanish with highest number of donor hospitals. Clínico San Carlos is also the national leading centre in donation stopped heart. Madrid centres are helping to extend donor programs stopped heart, through the training of professionals of hospitals of other autonomous communities.

All this activity has been possible thanks to 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 organ donation and transplantation activity.