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ARCHIVED - Costa Blanca hospital first in Spain to perform 3000 bone marrow transplants
La Fe Hospital in the Valencia region carried out its first transplant in 1978, reaching the milestone this week.
La Fe Hospital in the Valencia region has become the first centre in Spain to perform 3,000 bone marrow transplants in adult patients, carrying out the milestone achieving operation on Tuesday (July 27).
The first hematopoietic stem cell transplant at Hospital La Fe, which was the second in Spain, was performed in 1978, and during the first few years, an average of four bone marrow transplants were performed each year.
This figure has risen steadily with between 150 and 200 transplants now being carried out annually at the hospitals' Haematopoietic Stem Cell Therapy and Hematopoietic Stem Transplantation Unit in Valencia city, which serves the region's three provinces, including Alicante.
"We have set a record becoming the first Spanish centre to reach this number of transplants in adult patients, and the increase in activity is due to several factors", explains head of the Hematology Service, Dr Javier De la Rubia.
On the one hand, the improvement in clinical results is due to the extension of support therapies, "which have greatly reduced the complications derived from a transplant because they are managed in a more precise manner".
As a consequence, the survival rate has increased and so has the growth of these types of procedures.
In addition, diagnostic procedures have been "greatly refined", and are now much more accurate than they were 15 years ago.
"Bone marrow transplantation is a treatment that involves teams made up of all the different specialties in addition to hematology, such as intensive care medicine, neurology, cardiology, internal medicine, pharmacy, microbiology, etcetera. Without them and the generosity of all the anonymous donors around the world, none of this could be achieved", says Dr. De la Rubia.
IMAGE: La Fe Departament de Salut