J.Jpn. Surg. Soc.. 91(9): 1397-1399, 1990

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Report on the annual meeting

THE WORKS TO PURCHASE CADAVERIC DONORS FOR KIDNEY TRANSPLANTATION AND FUTURE PROBLEMS ON ORGAN TRANSPLANTATION IN JAPAN

Since April 1987, we have visited 13 emergency hospitals in the neighborhood with the purpose of purchasing much more cadaveric donors for kidney transplantation. We educated that many medical staffs of those emergency hospitals might understand the present state of cadaveric kidney transplantation in Japan, Europe and America, and requested to inform potential donors with brain death for transplantation to us.
On the practical result for this 36 months, there were over 40 informations of potential donors, and 34 patients were actually purchased as donors for kidney transplantation. And 31 of 34 donors were from 3 emergency medical facilities. By our works of the transplant coordination and some findings, we can know that most doctors working at the emergency hospitals approve of brain death and organ transplantation.
For the development of organ transplantation in Japan, we, the staffs working for transplant treatment, must earnestly appeal to the staffs working at emergency hospitals for assistance. And we should also discuss an ideal system for cooperation.

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