A thousand kidney transplants, a thousand stories of hope and rebirth. This is the milestone achieved by Transplant Center of the Federico II University Hospital Trust Napoli, thanks to the living donation of a Neapolitan woman for her sister-in-law.
Both are now fully recovered. A story, that of the Federiciano Transplant Center, which began in 1977.
An intense work that has recently received a strong boost thanks to the direction of the Kidney Transplant Program by the prof. Roberto Troisi, started in 2021.
There have been many innovations in the technological field, with the introduction of mechanical perfusion of organs for their better and prolonged preservation, and in the surgical field, with the launch of the living donor kidney transplant program with the minimally invasive robotic technique aimed at ensuring greater surgical accuracy and safety for donors.
It was 1991 when the first transplant from a living donor was performed.Federico II University Hospital Company, which was followed by 15 cases up to 2020. Since 2021, with the implementation of the new robotic technique, 14 transplants have already been performed, the latest in chronological order bringing the number of transplants to 1000.
“Living donor transplantation is ideal for patients on dialysis or with advanced chronic renal failure, because it guarantees better and much more lasting results, both in the short and long term. It should not be forgotten, in fact, that the average waiting time for a donor is over 3 years”, specifies Prof. Troisi.
Thanks to living donation, “journeys of hope” are avoided, which are so burdensome on a psychological, physical and even economic level, both for patients and for the Region.
“Reaching the 1000th transplant ideally represents the celebration of the many lives saved in these decades of activity – adds Troisi – but it requires a reflection on the current situation of donation and transplantation in Campania.
We had only 10.7 donors per million inhabitants in 2022, against a national average of 24.7, and an opposition rate of 36.6%, against a national average of 29.6%. Communicating to the population, especially to schools, about the importance of donation is a real priority”.
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