Sister Patty Mujica - Kidney transplantation without blood transfusion or plasma ! October 29. 2016 - more...

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Luis Vernaza hospital procedure was performed Jehovah's Witness
Karina Silvera / Guayaquil /   October 29, 2016

Kidney transplantation without blood transfusion or plasma !  Health.  *Patty Mujica*  must spend at least seven days under observation. (Courtesy)

Like a new person. So Patty feels Villamar Mujica after receiving a new kidney, which had been suffering for thirteen years.

It was a long time "tied to a machine," says the woman, who received hemodialysis for a few years, then moved to sessions with sera and in 2011 began the process to join a waiting list for a donor organ. At that time felt faint, he says.

Until the call came informing him that had the kidney she needed. "I could not believe it. He had already lost hope, but the Lord said, 'Wait a minute,' "he says.

The process was conducted at the Luis Vernaza hospital, and this intervention amounted to 120 the number of such transplants that are done in the hospital for six years.

It was a satisfactory complex procedure, but with a particularity: it is the first time a procedure is performed without administering blood, plasma or platelets. This is due to the creed of the patient.

Mujica profess the religion of Jehovah's Witnesses and their beliefs do not allow them to receive any blood transfusion, so the surgical procedure could not rely on it.

Complex, but not impossible. Mosquera Noralma Vivas, team leader kidney transplant health of this house indicates that you do not need a transfusion during surgery. "Only we do when the patient is out of kilter".

For this particular case was ready the cell-saver (cell saver) machine that retrieves the patient's blood during the operation and returns to the body.

This case was one of the three procedures were carried out this week in the operation of organ transplants from cadavers, two kidney and one liver, in the latter part the medical group by Jose Zuniga, head of the team of liver transplant Luis Vernaza.

*GET  WELL  SOON*  Sister Patty Mujica❤  May Jehovah bless you !

(  http://expreso.ec/guayaquil/un-trasplante-de-rinon-sin-transfusion-de-sangre-ni-plasma-MH810680  )