[French legislation on organ transplantation]

EPIDEMIOLOGY OF ORGAN TRANSPLANTATION IN France. The number of transplants has been rising for ten years. Nevertheless, the stabilization of the number of brain-dead people identified as potential organ donors, and the persistently high rate of opposition to organ removal, accentuate the substantial gap between the number of candidates for transplantation and the number of transplants performed each year. Strategies are being used to reduce this imbalance, such as broadening the brain-dead donors selection criteria and increasing procurement from living donors and deceased donors after circulatory death. Unfortunately, the Covid-19 pandemic has further aggravated the difference between the supply of transplants and the need.