J.Jpn. Surg. Soc.
ISSN 1880-1129

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J.Jpn. Surg. Soc.. 99(11): 781-788, 1998

Feature topic

ORGAN TRANSPLANT NETWORK IN JAPAN;CURENT STATUS AND ITS ROLE

1) Secretary General Kanto-Kou-Shin-Etsu Brock Center
2)～9) Director of Brock Center, Japan Organ Transplant Network
1)～4),6)～8) Board of Members, Japan Organ Transplant Network
5)10) Vice President, Japan Organ Transplant Network
10) President Japan Organ Transplant Network

Satoshi Teraoka1), Kiyoshi Kurokawa2), Michio Mito3), Kaoru Yoshinaga4), Akihiro Igata5), Takao Sonoda6), Kunzou Orita7), Satoru Fujimi8), Kiyoharu Ishikawa9), Kikuo Nomoto10)

The Role of Organ Transplant Network are the encouragement of the organ transplantation and fair organ sharing. Its principled are united, neutral open and nonprofit organization, so as to secure the fair and quick organ sharing based on the uniform allocation policy. Japan Kidney Transplant Network was established in 1995 nad reorganized into multi-organ sharing network, Japan Organ Transplant Network in 1997, when Japan Organ transplant Act was enacted.
It consisits of transplant coordinators, physicians, transplant surgeons, kidney banks, local administration, academic standings, other organization/associations and others. There are several commitee, in which special subjects on organ transplantation and related matters are consulted, and review system in which each case is assessed and judged. And principal and essential items are dicided by the board of members and then by the general assembly.
The new computer system was introduced and registrants data are renewed every year, and recipent selection is done based on the latest registrants data. Standardized HLA examination tray was introduced and class II antigen was examined by means of DNA typing since 1997, which enabled more precise and acurate search. Hereafter, the education and encouragement of transplant coordinators to raise themseves and the more effective and extended distribution of donor cards are indispensable to promote organ donation/transplantation.

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