Background: In our country, heart and kidney transplantation is a novel option for treatment of combined terminal heart and kidney failure. This program began in 2012 for selected patients with documented terminal heart failure and structural kidney damage with renal failure. Description of cases: Between January 1, 2012 and April 30, 2016, we made 92 orthotopic heart transplantations.
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September 2011
We present the experience of General Hospital CMN La Raza from 1996 to 2011. In this period, we have made 40 liver transplants in adults and 22 pediatric liver transplants. A 100% of adult population received a graft from deceased donor; while in the pediatric age group, 60% were from deceased donor and 40% from living donor.
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