Wednesday, March 14, 2012

Javier Mascolo died the first cardiopulmonary transplant

After 19 years of his first operation, was died at the Hospital for a cardiac arrest result of pneumonia. His strength to cling to life made ​​him a fixture in Mendoza. With four organ transplant could go ahead and form a beautiful family. After his experience, he founded an organization to help others in their situation and even spoke to Sandro to support intervention prior to the heart.

We talk about Javier Mascolo, the first to receive a transplant Mendoza cardiopulmonary in the province and their loved ones who were fired yesterday with an immeasurable sorrow, but with the pride of having witnessed the passage through the world of a fighter and be supportive.

As revealed from their families, the 44-year-old joined the Italian Hospital for 15 days because he could not breathe and had fever spikes. There, the doctors decided to keep him hospitalized for suffering a lung infection. On Tuesday at 17 suffered a cardio respiratory arrest and died around 23.

"He was a very enthusiastic and had a very important survival, as he lived 19 years after a heart-lung transplantation, plus one kidney who received 4 years ago. It was a normal life and was eager to live," said cardiac surgeon Claudio Burgos, head of the surgery that changed his life.

With regard to the causes of his death, the doctor explained that he was in perfect condition, but had a box that was complicated by his situation: "He gave a pneumonia that can give anyone, but having a chronic immunosuppression transplanted organs compounded by the case, "said the professional.

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