Special
From the University of Murcia (UMU) and the Virgen de la Arrixaca Murcian Institute of Biosanitary Research (IMIB), Dr. Antonio Lax will lead a work to continue advancing in asystolic donor heart transplantation
This group has been studying this type of transplant for years, that of the heart of a donor who died of cardiocirculatory arrest, a challenge that would considerably increase the number of available organs.
To date, the Virgen de la Arrixaca Hospital has carried out five of the 15 donor heart transplants in asystole that have been carried out in Spain.
The UMU researcher received financial support from the Mutua Madrileña Foundation, which finances the project, from the Health Minister of the Community of Madrid, Enrique Ruiz Escudero, who was accompanied by the president of the Mutua Group, Ignacio Garralda.
Mutua Madrileña Foundation
With these grants, the Fundación Mutua Madrileña contributes two million euros to quality medical research carried out in Spain. The entity has delivered its XIX Grants for Health Research, endowed with two million euros, to 21 clinical studies that will be carried out in hospitals throughout Spain. Among them is a study to further delve into heart transplantation in asystole that will be carried out at the UMU and the IMIB.
Heart transplantation is limited by a shortage of donors. Donation in asystole or in cardiocirculatory arrest (the so-called ‘heart stopped’) has increased a lot in recent years and represents an important source of organs.
The Murcian team led by Dr. Antonio Lax has spent years studying how to overcome the inconvenience and be able to transplant the heart of this type of donor. To do this, it has pioneered the characterization and monitoring of the evolution of cardiac damage that occurs in hearts from donors in asystole.
#finance #study #improve #heart #transplantation #stopped #heart