Mexico’s IMSS reports heart transplant for 48-year-old patient at La Raza
The institute says it was the unit’s eighth successful heart transplant of the year and transport was coordinated around the clinical window of less than six hours.
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Mexico’s Social Security Institute (IMSS) said on 11 October that a 48-year-old patient had received a successful heart transplant at La Raza hospital in Mexico City. The institute described it as the hospital unit’s eighth successful heart transplant of the year and said the patient had dilated cardiomyopathy, for which transplantation was considered the only treatment option.
IMSS said the donor heart was coordinated from Culiacán to reach the hospital within the clinical window of less than six hours from removal to implantation. The institute said transport was coordinated while Hurricane Polo was affecting the Pacific coast and that the patient was recovering favorably after surgery. The release does not give the operation date, and the reported clinical outcome is the institute’s account.
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La Raza heart transplant and organ transport
Completed surgery and organ-transport logistics reported by IMSS on 11 October.
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IMSS reports La Raza transplant
IMSS said it coordinated transport from Culiacán, Sinaloa, so the heart would arrive within the clinical window of less than six hours from removal to implantation; this does not measure an actual total transport duration.
Methodology
IMSS’s 11 October 2026 bulletin says transport was coordinated so the heart would arrive within the clinical window of less than six hours from removal to implantation. This is not a measured actual transport duration. Because the surgery date is unstated, the article event date is the source-review date; clinical status is attributed to the institute.
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Patient age
Patient age reported by IMSS.
| Patient age | 48 | Reported age |
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Age is reported in IMSS’s 11 October 2026 bulletin.
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Transplant count
Successful transplants by the La Raza unit during the year, according to IMSS.
| Successful transplants in 2026 | 8 | IMSS reported count |
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The eighth-successful-transplant figure is the institute’s count for 2026, the bulletin’s publication year; it is not independently verified.
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Clinical transplant time window
Window applies to elapsed time from heart removal to implantation.
| Time from heart removal to implantation | 6 | Clinical upper bound: less than 6 hours |
Methodology
IMSS says transplantation needed to occur within less than six hours and transport was coordinated around that clinical window. The 6-hour value is only an upper bound; it is not a measured actual transport or transplant duration.
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