Peace is consolidated as the first Spanish hospital with more than 1,000 childrens transplant.

-This hospital performs more than half of transplants for children of all Spain

– marks 26 years since the first transplant performed a child in this hospital in the community of Madrid

-Center professionals have marked great milestones in the history of transplantation in Spain

Madrid, 2011-December El Hospital Universitario La Paz, belonging to the public network of hospitals in the community of Madrid, is consolidated as the first trasplantador Centre for children with more than half of transplants carried out in Spain and its prestige places it among the best in the international arena. The director-general of hospitals, Antonio Bargueño, and the Coordinator of the national organization for organ transplants, Rafael Matesanz, participated last Thursday 15 at the event organised to commemorate having made more than a thousand children solid organ transplant.

Burgess stressed the trajectory of Hospital La Paz to be the only pediatric center of Spain that soon will offer all of the transplantation programmes of solid organ and the only carried out by intestinal and multivisceral transplants in children. Also highlighted the human and technical quality of all practitioners of transplants that, over the years have marked important milestones in the history of transplantation in Spain.

In particular, on 29 June 1993 is performed the first liver transplant donor Spain live, 1994 transplanted heart to a newborn 25 days, in 1999 is the first of intestine, in 2003 the first multivisceral and in 2010 the first hígado-páncreas in a child and first block in Spain. In the year 2000 are also in La Paz for the first time in the national territory Split technique in situ, a variant of the Split which uses a single liver to two recipients.

The day has also served to commemorate the 26 anniversary of Pediatric renal transplantation and the 25th anniversary of the first liver transplant in La Paz. Renal Transplantation in children program was launched in 1985 and so far have been 354 children’s transplant, of which 86 have been donor live.

In bowel transplantation, the Center conducts three types:

isolated intestine; intestino-hígado and multivisceral, that is the most complex and usually includes several organs bowel, liver, pancreas and stomach. It’s a type of highly complex transplants from a technical point of view and by the difficulty of finding a donor right depending on the weight of the receiver and the compatibility of the body. 90% Of children evaluated for this transplantation have had problems from the neonatal period and the smallest has transplanted with six months of age.

So far, has been 65 transplants, 24 of them in isolated intestine, intestino-hígado 20, multiviscerales 21, which represents virtually all of those achieved in Spain including those of an adult.

5% Of the intestinal worldwide

The experience accumulated, with 5% of all multiviscerales transplants carried out in the world, have placed the peace in a prominent position internationally both in activity and in indicators of quality and survival. Currently there are only two centres in Europe capable of performing this type of transplants in children as well as La Paz, one in Birmingham and another in Paris.

The child heart transplant started in La Paz in 1994 and since then there have been 41. The waiting list of cardiac transplantation in children is usually extended often by more than two months, including in situations of extreme gravity. For this reason, in La Paz ventricular assist devices are used to keep the critically ill patient in a stable condition waiting for a donor. This Center has used the artificial heart as a bridge to transplantation ten times with results satisfying.