Quintieri F, Chistolini P, Pugliese O
Laboratorio di Immunologia, Istituto Superiore di Sanità, Roma, Italy.
Eur J Epidemiol. 1999 May;15(5):493-7. doi: 10.1023/a:1007587400503.
The Istituto Superiore di Sanità (The Italian National Institute of Health) has been collecting information regarding organ donation and transplantation in Italy. Herein we describe organ procurement and transplant activity in Italy in the years 1992 1997 and show some of the characteristics regarding both donors and transplanted patients who received kidneys, hearts, livers and lungs. Although transplantation in Italy has been very difficult because of shortage of organ donors, national rates have been improving year after year. The present situation should ameliorate further to enable Italy to reach the same level of other advanced European countries.
意大利国家卫生研究院一直在收集意大利器官捐赠和移植的相关信息。在此，我们描述了1992年至1997年意大利的器官获取和移植活动，并展示了接受肾脏、心脏、肝脏和肺移植的捐赠者及受赠患者的一些特征。尽管由于器官捐赠者短缺，意大利的移植工作一直非常困难，但全国的移植率逐年提高。目前的情况应会进一步改善，以使意大利达到其他欧洲发达国家的水平。
