Organ donation after circulatory death in Switzerland: slow but constant progress
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Organ donation after circulatory death in Switzerland: slow but constant progress.
Worldwide, the number of patients wait-listed for organ transplantation is growing. In most countries, however, there is a shortage of donor organs. Switzerland has one of the lowest post mortem donation rates among European countries. While most organs donated for transplantation are retrieved from primary or secondary brain-dead donors with sustained circulation (heart-beating donors), organ ...
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عنوان ژورنال: Swiss Medical Weekly
سال: 2015
ISSN: 1424-7860,1424-3997
DOI: 10.4414/smw.2015.14062