| List of Contributors | |
| How severe is organ shortage in Eurotransplant? | p. 3 |
| Organ shortage in France: present status, causes and the future | p. 11 |
| Is there a shortage of organs in Argentina? | p. 19 |
| How to increase the search for organs in Argentina within the respect of ethics | p. 27 |
| Effect of transplantation laws on organ procurement | p. 33 |
| Causes and socio-psychological dimensions in donation refusal | p. 41 |
| Disappointing rate of altruism in the population | p. 49 |
| Organ procurement from non-heart-beating donors | p. 55 |
| Heart transplant from non-beating heart donor: past experience and report of one clinical case | p. 61 |
| Total body cooling for organ procurement | p. 67 |
| The living donor program in Scandinavia | p. 73 |
| Pancreas transplants from living related donors | p. 77 |
| Expanding the donor supply by using high risk donors: the use of pulsatile kidney perfusion for evaluation of high risk kidney donors | p. 85 |
| Relative effect of HLA matching and cold ischemia time | p. 93 |
| Are kidneys of very young donors suitable for transplantation? | p. 99 |
| Organ procurement from cadaveric children | p. 103 |
| Influence of donor age on the result of heart transplantation | p. 111 |
| Results of kidney transplantation using high risk donors | p. 121 |
| Anesthesia and resuscitation of the genetically related living donor in liver transplantation | p. 127 |
| Potential donors and brain death epidemiology in the region of Madrid | p. 135 |
| Logistics and management for improvement of multiorgan procurement from potential brain dead donors | p. 143 |
| Optimal use of cadaver kidneys for transplantation | p. 161 |
| Organ procurement in Spain: the national organization of transplantation | p. 167 |
| Integrated ways to improve cadaveric organ donation | p. 179 |
| Training the Transplant Procurement Management (TPM) coordinator | p. 191 |
| Surgical optimization of multi-organ procurement | p. 197 |
| The place of anatomy in liver transplantation: multiplicity of possibilities and optimization of the utilization of cadaveric and living donor's organs | p. 207 |
| Detection of anti-HLA class 1 IgG antibodies by ELISA | p. 213 |
| The foundations of the right to be grafted | p. 223 |
| The graft survival curve: Ideology and rhetoric - Part II | p. 235 |
| The nature of the selection of candidates for cardiac transplant | p. 243 |
| Should we review the indications for transplants because of the shortage of organs? | p. 253 |
| Can we select candidates for combined kidney and heart or liver transplantation? | p. 261 |
| When to refer a patient for lung transplantation | p. 267 |
| Must the choice of surgical procedure for lung transplantation be guided by organ shortage? | p. 277 |
| Is cardiac transplantation justified in patients over 60 years of age? | p. 281 |
| The media and organ shortage | p. 287 |
| Gene therapy as an alternative to organ transplantation? | p. 297 |
| Xenochimerism and tolerance | p. 301 |
| Transgenic pigs and xenotransplantation | p. 309 |
| The endothelial cell as a target of xenogeneic hyperacute rejection | p. 317 |
| The follow up of the French grafts | p. 327 |
| Outcome of 490 kidneys procured from brain dead donors in one center | p. 328 |
| Organ shortage and a local waiting list allow a local kidney allocation policy to ensure both short ischemia time and good HLA-1, B, DR matching | p. 329 |
| France transplant regional transplant coordination unit [actual symbol not reproducible] | p. 330 |
| The organizative transplant model in Catalonia: The O.CAT.T | p. 331 |
| P.H.S.P.O. | p. 332 |
| Healthcare on the worksite: A strong means of communication to promote organ donation | p. 333 |
| Aspects of the legal regulation of living donor transplantation within Europe | p. 334 |
| A European Multicenter study of transplantation from living donors | p. 335 |
| Kidney transplantation from living related donors | p. 336 |
| Role of the donor in the post transplant renal function | p. 337 |
| Older living related and cadaveric donors in renal transplantation | p. 338 |
| The high risk donor in kidney transplantation. Effect of sex and age on the long term graft outcome | p. 339 |
| The lack of donor or lack of understanding and cooperation results of the attitude survey among public medical and nursing profession | p. 340 |
| Jugular oxymetry and brain death during intensive care of comatose patients | p. 343 |
| Modifications of UW solution can improve metabolic and cellular protection of hearts during long term hypothermic storage: Evaluation by P-31 magnetic resonance spectroscopy and biochemical analyses | p. 344 |
| Hypophysis thyroid axis disturbances in human brain dead donors | p. 345 |
| Normothermic preservation of "multiple organ blocks" with a new perfluorooctyl bromide emulsion | p. 346 |
| Evaluation of a high sodium-low potassium cold-storage solution using the isolated perfused rat kidney | p. 347 |
| Organ preservation by vitrification | p. 348 |
| Immunological factors together with ischaemia result in primary non-function of cadaveric kidney grafts | p. 349 |
| The new technique of rapid en bloc removal of both kidneys in non-heart beating donors | p. 350 |
| The anatomic feasibility studies on the technique of splitting-liver transplantation (SLT) | p. 351 |
| Combined kidney transplantation (Tx) with heart, liver or pancreas | p. 352 |
| Combined hepatic and renal transplantation in primary hyperoxaluria type I: Report of four cases | p. 353 |
| HCV RNA in patients undergoing kidney transplantation | p. 357 |
| Indication for transplant and efficacy of itraconazole in aspergillus fumigatus infection reconsidered | p. 358 |
| Out-center dialysis and renal transplantation | p. 359 |
| Spontaneous regression of a metastatic adenocarcinoma transmitted by a cadaver kidney graft: Support for "immunotherapy"? | p. 360 |
| Posttransplant malignant lymphomas (PTL) treated with doxorubicin-based chemotherapy | p. 361 |
| Malignancies in children with renal replacement therapy (RRT) | p. 362 |
| Endothelial activation in xenografts' rejection: Evaluation of the role of heparan-sulphate | p. 363 |
| Systemic IL-10 release, after a single pre or per operative large dose of ATG-fresenius in human kidney transplantation | p. 364 |
| Prolongation of skin allograft survival in mice following administration of new 20-epi vitamin D3 analogues | p. 365 |
| A model for self tolerance induction based on intrathymic anergy, reversible in the absence of the tolerogen | p. 366 |
| Breaking the donor age barrier to face the organ shortage in liver transplantation | p. 369 |
| Successful transplantation of pediatric donor kidneys in adult recipients | p. 371 |
| Public campaign to increase donor availability in a regional transplant center | p. 372 |
| Morphologic findings in baseline renal transplant biopsies | p. 373 |
| Systemic IL-10 release, after a single pre- or per-operative large dose of ATG-fresenius in human kidney transplantation | p. 374 |
| The feasibility of organ preservation at warmer temperatures | p. 375 |
| In Situ preservation without traditional hypothermia | p. 376 |
| Name Index | p. 377 |
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