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So far in 2022, the High Specialty Medical Unit “Dr. Antonio Fraga Mouret” has transplanted 17 livers, 87 kidneys and made 17 cadaveric donations.
The Hospital de Especialidades de la Raza ranks first in IMSS transplants in 2022.
According to CENATRA, there are 256 people waiting to receive a liver transplant in Mexico.
A 50-year-old nurse identified as Guadalupe has received a liver transplant because she has been diagnosed with liver cirrhosis. She was operated on by specialists from the Specialty Hospital of the National Medical Center (CMN) La Raza who performed the procedure.
The nurse was discharged with only 5 days in recovery because her case surprised the health personnel who treated her because she had a favorable evolution, which allowed her to recover quickly and in a short time.
According to an official IMSS statement, Dr. Lorena Noriega Salas, transplant surgeon at UMAE, indicated that Lupita was still active in her professional activity as a nurse; however, she felt very tired and her physical condition deteriorated every day, for which she was assessed and it was determined that she was a candidate for a transplant and a protocol was initiated for her to be included on a national waiting list for find a donor.
Lorena Noriega explained that since the availability of the organ became known, Lupita was notified to be admitted and subjected to studies. During this process, there was continuous communication with the team that procured the liver and, seeing that it was a suitable organ, the deployment for its transplant began.
Dr. José Arturo Velázquez García, director of the UMAE, stated that the La Raza Specialty Hospital is where the largest number of liver transplants are performed at the IMSS and currently ranks first nationally within the Institution, while that in 2021 in the entire health sector they were placed in third place. So far in 2022, 17 liver transplants have been carried out, 87 kidney transplants and 17 cadaveric donations have been made.
The nurse who received the liver transplant commented, “The truth is that I can presume that the IMSS has very prepared people, all the intensive care, operating room, post-surgical specialists, all the people are very prepared. As a nurse I can tell that the protocol is very well established,” she said.
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