{"id":2134,"date":"2021-05-20T15:47:12","date_gmt":"2021-05-20T15:47:12","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.barnaclinic.com\/blog\/en\/?p=2134"},"modified":"2021-05-25T16:00:21","modified_gmt":"2021-05-25T16:00:21","slug":"donor-kidney-transplants","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.barnaclinic.com\/blog\/en\/blog\/donor-kidney-transplants\/","title":{"rendered":"Hospital Cl\u00ednic is the first Spanish centre to perform 1,000 living donor kidney transplants"},"content":{"rendered":"

The\u00a0Hospital Cl\u00ednic<\/a> is a reference centre in Spain when it comes to kidney transplants<\/a><\/strong>. On July 27, 1965, doctors Josep Mar\u00eda Gil-Verat<\/strong> and Antoni Caralps<\/strong> completed the first kidney transplant in Spain<\/strong>. In all the time that has elapsed since then, 5,000 transplant operations have been carried out in the centre, of which 1,000 have been from a living donor, being the first centre in our country to achieve this figure<\/strong>. Some numbers that undoubtedly serve to highlight the transcendental role that the centre plays in our country with regard to\u00a0kidney transplants<\/a><\/strong>.<\/p>\n

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Living donor, the best option for kidney transplantation<\/h2>\n

In Spain, about 68,000 interventions of this type have been carried out and the vast majority, some 63,000, have used organs from dead donors. A little more than 4,700 have been performed from living donors, the Hospital Clinic being one of the main centres in this regard, being responsible for just over 21% of these living donor transplants<\/strong>. \u201cLiving donor transplantation is the best therapeutic alternative for chronic kidney failure, but each operation is a challenge. It must be approached with transparency and objectivity, with knowledge\u201d<\/em>, explains Dr Josep Maria Campistol<\/strong>, nephrologist and director of the Hospital Cl\u00ednic.<\/p>\n

Therefore, in our country there is a guarantee system that seeks above all to eliminate any doubt about the altruistic act of donating a kidney. Donors must pass three different filters before starting the whole process. First, pass a medical and psychosocial interview with the professionals of the transplant circuit, then receive the endorsement of the hospital\u2019s ethics committee and finally sign an affidavit before the judge that their decision is informed and free.<\/p>\n