[Recent experiences with kidney explantation outside transplantation centers]

The ever-increasing negative balance between the offer of an demand for organs with regard to transplantation surgery is very problematic. The transplantation centres are confronted with an insolvable problem and for this reason the co-operation of hospitals, other than the transplantation centres, is of vital importance where the explantation of kidneys, under specified conditions, is concerned. There are reports of new experiences in the removal of organs through in-situ-perfusion and en-bloc-removals as well as combined consignments of organs and typing material. The favourable results personally achieved during the past 6 years have given cause to believe that other clinics or hospitals, other than the transplantation centres, will participate in the explantation or organs for the purpose of transplantation.