First "Illegal" Heart Transplant in Latin America Turns 37 - La Opinión

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At this time, the risks associated with heart transplantation continue to exist and include a variety of major complications

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The first heart transplant turned out to be an "illegal" operation that lacked institutional approval at La Raza Hospital.

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The year was 1988. Year of more controversial presidential elections in Mexico. Year of the birth of the Party of the Democratic Revolution. Year of the start of the so-called neoliberal reforms that changed the course of the country. Year also, in which it was... Complete note »

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The first successful heart transplant in Mexico took place on July 21, 1988. It was possible because of the skill and experience of Rubén Argüero Sánchez –a academic from the Faculty of Medicine of UNAM – and a team of specialists from the National Medical Center La Raza of the IMSS, who worked to place the heart organ of Eloísa Pacheco, a young man who had just died, in José Fernando Tafoya Chávez, 45 years old. “It was 5:30 a.m. on Thursday, 1…

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Mexico City, Mexico. 37 years ago, on July 21, 1988, the first transplanted heart in Latin America began to beat at the General Hospital of La Raza, in Mexico City, thanks to a team of specialists led by cardiologist Rubén Argüero Sánchez, who told EFE this Monday about the circumstances of that historic day. A pioneering intervention that did not have authorization and that "was illegal," but that "had to be done," explained the professor emeri…