Doctors at the Lucia Iñiguez Landín surgical hospital in the Cuban province of Holguin performed a kidney transplant on July 6, on 10-year-old Roberto Alcolea, who is progressing satisfactorily after the surgery.
Doctors Roberto Cruz Mayo and Arnol Chacon led the kidney transplant surgery together with anaesthesiologists, nurses and technicians from the surgical hospital of Holguin.
The child, from the province of Granma, was suffering from primary glomerulopathy, which caused a terminal chronic renal failure in the patient, who had been receiving haemodialysis treatment since June 2007 at the Paediatric Hospital of Santiago de Cuba province.
Dr Mayda Pino, head of the Coordination Service for Transplants at the Lucia Iñiguez hospital in Holguin, said that Roberto has achieved a diuresis of 1,600 millilitres within 24 hours.
The province of Holguin began to perform kidney transplants in 1996 when it performed eleven operations, a figure that has been increasing gradually each year to a total of 365 so far.
The Lucia Iñiguez Landín Surgical Hospital in Holguin, is one of the best centers in the activity of transplantation and organ donation in Cuba, according to the assessment of the National Organization for Transplants.
The start of kidney transplantation 10 years ago in the province was a significant achievement in the Health sector and a solution for those patients, which previously had to be moved to the capital to receive surgical treatment.
Currently, the province has haemodialysis services in the municipalities of Mayarí and Banes, linked to the Vladimir Lenin, Lucia Iñiguez hospitals in Holguin , and the general hospital of Moa, which allows patients to arrive in a better health condition at the time of the transplant.
(Ahora.cu)
The child, from the province of Granma, was suffering from primary glomerulopathy, which caused a terminal chronic renal failure in the patient, who had been receiving haemodialysis treatment since June 2007 at the Paediatric Hospital of Santiago de Cuba province.
Dr Mayda Pino, head of the Coordination Service for Transplants at the Lucia Iñiguez hospital in Holguin, said that Roberto has achieved a diuresis of 1,600 millilitres within 24 hours.
The province of Holguin began to perform kidney transplants in 1996 when it performed eleven operations, a figure that has been increasing gradually each year to a total of 365 so far.
The Lucia Iñiguez Landín Surgical Hospital in Holguin, is one of the best centers in the activity of transplantation and organ donation in Cuba, according to the assessment of the National Organization for Transplants.
The start of kidney transplantation 10 years ago in the province was a significant achievement in the Health sector and a solution for those patients, which previously had to be moved to the capital to receive surgical treatment.
Currently, the province has haemodialysis services in the municipalities of Mayarí and Banes, linked to the Vladimir Lenin, Lucia Iñiguez hospitals in Holguin , and the general hospital of Moa, which allows patients to arrive in a better health condition at the time of the transplant.
(Ahora.cu)