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[Cardiac transplantation. Lack of donor organs. Current status]
1Service de chirurgie cardiovasculaire hôpital de La Pitié Salpêtrire, Paris.
Archives Des Maladies Du Coeur Et Des Vaisseaux
|November 1, 1996
Abstract:
The lack of donor organs in France has led to a decrease in the number of cardiac transplantations (636 in 1990. 429 in 1994), despite the fact that the number of indications remains high. The reasons for this inadequation are multiple, but family refusal remains the major cause (65% of cases of non-donation). Efforts should continue to try and reverse this attitude to make this unequaled treatment available. The difficulties should in no case influence the indications of transplantations.