The community hospitals conducted 406 kidney transplants last year.

-the community conducted 14 children’s kidney transplant, 22% of the national total

– with the opening of the Hospital of Torrejon, the community adds a new dialysis centre

Madrid, March 2012.- hospitals of the community of Madrid made a total of 406 kidney transplants in 2011, which was more than half of the total number of transplants carried out that year, 744. Hospital 12 de Octubre was once again, in this area, the hospital you transplants more kidney took place in Spain, with a total of 149 interventions. Altogether, the renal trasplantadora activity in the community is 16.3 per cent of the national total.

Kidney transplantation is maintained as a fundamental therapeutic intervention for some patients kidney on Thursday held the world kidney day under the motto kidneys for live ” and, with this reason, regional President, Esperanza Aguirre, and the Health MinisterJavier Fernández – Lasquetty, visited the tent who have installed ALCER and Fundación Renal Iñigo Alvarez de Toledo in the Puerta del Sol. It visitors have been testing different to check the functioning of your kidneys and learn about prevention and treatment of kidney diseases.

Within the kidney transplant the corresponding figure for living donor transplants has promoted, and in 2011 were 42, which currently represent more than 10% of the total number of kidney transplants in Madrid. In the field of infant kidney transplantation Hospital Gregorio Marañón and the Hospital La Paz, national reference for this type of transplant unit, made a total of 14 interventions last year, representing 22.2 per cent of the national total.

Second case of crossed renal transplant

In 2010 the Hospital 12 de Octubre and the Hospital La Paz joined program crossed renal transplant and, last year, La Paz was involved in the second of this type of transplants carried out in Spain.

Cross donation transplantation is a form of kidney transplant from live donor, with the peculiarity that takes place between a donor and a recipient are not known, fruit of an exchange between the two or more pairs that are immunologically incompatible.

More than 140,000 consultations of Nephrology in 2011

Hospitals in the region attended a total of 143.363 consultations of Nephrology in 2011, 3.2% more than those recorded the previous year. Of them, 20.610 were further consultations, what, roughly, can assimilate new patients in this specialty.

In the same period more than 2,700 patients from the Madrid health required dializar is. For typologies, the vast majority accounted for hemodialysis in a health centre. Lathe 350 patients were conducted in throughout 2011, peritoneal dialysis at home.

The Nephrology service of the Hospital of Torrejón, opened last September, has 16 posts of dialysis, which is a new healthcare improvement to the citizens of the Henares corridor.

Also, last year were 30,900 surgical Urology, which includes those related to kidney disease.

Of these, the majority corresponds to surgery scheduled with hospital admission, 16.007 interventions, followed by outpatient scheduled 12.026, urgent 2,579 with income and other outpatient urgent 288.