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Strategies in organ donation

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Organ Allocation

Part of the book series: Transplantation and Clinical Immunology ((TRAC,volume 30))

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The gap between the supply of organs and the demand for them is arguably the most intransigent problem in clinical transplantation worldwide. The situation in North America is typical: in 1995, 44 000 patients were registered on the UNOS waiting list, three-quarters of them renal patients. During the previous 7 years the waiting list had increased at a rate of 22.4% per annum, whereas the average total number of transplants per annum had only increased by 8.1%. The human cost of this deficit was a death rate of 18% per annum of patients on the waiting list [1]. Similar dismal trends are seen in other international registries such as Eurotransplant and UK Transplant Service.

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Sells, R.A. (1998). Strategies in organ donation. In: Touraine, J.L., Traeger, J., Bétuel, H., Dubernard, J.M., Revillard, J.P., Dupuy, C. (eds) Organ Allocation. Transplantation and Clinical Immunology, vol 30. Springer, Dordrecht. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-94-011-4984-6_10

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