Eurotransplant

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Eurotransplant
(ET)
founding 1969
Seat Suffer
Website www.eurotransplant.org
8 countries involved in Eurotransplant (blue)

Eurotransplant , in full the Eurotransplant International Foundation , is a foundation initiated in 1967 by Jon van Rood , legally established in 1969 and based in Leiden , the Netherlands. Today it is the agency for organ donations in 8 countries, the Benelux countries, Germany , Austria , Slovenia , Croatia and Hungary . All transplant centers, tissue typing laboratories and hospitals in which organ donations are carried out are involved in the international cooperation of these countries.

The primary goal is the optimal availability of donor organs and tissues. Other goals include promoting research to improve transplant outcomes and increasing the number of organs or tissues available through advertising.

history

Eurotransplant goes back to a collaboration initiated by Jon van Rood (1926–2017) in 1967 between 12 transplant centers in 3 countries on the issue of kidney transplants. This became factually necessary when Rood realized that the Human Leucocyte Antigen (HLA) played an important role in the success of kidney transplants. Until then, donors and recipients were mainly made according to blood groups, from then on also according to the HLA system with significantly more variants, which requires a database with larger pools of donors and recipients.

After starting out as a scientific experiment, the foundation was established in 1969, in which many transplant clinics work together. After a phase of rapid growth, Eurotransplant worked for 68 centers in 6 countries in the late 1970s: West Germany, Austria, Switzerland, Belgium, the Netherlands, Luxembourg. Switzerland left later, but "East Germany" joined in 1991, Slovenia in 1999, Croatia in 2007 and Hungary in 2013.

Between 1967 and 2007 the organization was involved in the procurement of donor organs to 122,000 recipients in the Eurotransplant area. In these 40 years there were 14,000 heart, 4000 lung, 79,000 kidney, 21,000 liver and 4200 pancreatic transplants counted.

In October 2019, the total number of 185,000 transplants (since 1967) is given.

Eurotransplant started with the fitting of kidneys, in the 1970s with the placement of livers, a few years later also with the heart and the salivary glands. From 1988 lungs are matched, from 1999 - in a small number of cases - also intestines.

Eurotransplant continues to develop its methods. In 1996 the Eurotransplant Kidney Allocation System (ETKAS) was introduced. The Acceptable Mismatch program for highly immunized recipient patients was also introduced in 1996 . In 1999 the Eurotransplant Senior Program was started for both donors and recipients over 65 years of age.

Comparable institutions

Multinational (like Eurotransplant)

  • Scandiatransplant in Iceland, Norway, Finland, Denmark and Sweden
  • Balttransplant in Estonia, Latvia and Lithuania
  • Grupo Punta Cana for Latin American countries
  • Australia and New Zealand Cardiothoracic Organ Transplant Registry (ANZCOTR) in Australia and New Zealand

National

  • Francetransplant in France
  • Swisstransplant in Switzerland
  • United Kingdom Transplant Support Services Authority (UKTSSA) in Great Britain
  • United Network for Organ Sharing (UNOS) in the USA

See also

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ a b Eurotransplant Manual. (PDF) July 28, 2016, p. 8 , accessed on June 13, 2020 (English): “In 1967, the concept that optimal tissue typing and matching between donor and recipient would improve results of renal transplantation was proposed by Prof. Dr . Jon J. van Rood, [...]. "
  2. ↑ Eurotransplant Manual. (PDF) July 28, 2016, p. 8 , accessed on June 13, 2020 (English): "Founding member countries were Austria, Belgium, Germany, Luxembourg and the Netherlands."
  3. ↑ www.eurotransplant.nl ( Memento of February 14, 2010 in the Internet Archive ) Press release of September 24, 2007 (pdf)
  4. ↑ Kidney. February 3, 2020, accessed on June 13, 2020 (English): "ESP On January 4 1999, the Eurotransplant Senior Program (ESP) was implemented [...] The ESP allocates kidneys from post-mortem donors of 65 years and older to recipients of 65 years and older [...]. "
  5. ↑ www.grupopuntacana.org ( Memento from March 1, 2010 in the Internet Archive )

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