Liver transplantation and brain death legislation in the mainland area of China
10.3760/cma.j.issn.1673-4203.2016.01.015
- VernacularTitle:我国大陆肝移植与脑死亡立法进展
- Author:
Gang CHEN
;
Zuoyi JIAO
;
Junmin ZHU
;
Yumin LI
- Publication Type:Journal Article
- Keywords:
Liver transplantation;
Brain death;
Organ transplantation
- From:
International Journal of Surgery
2016;43(1):47-50
- CountryChina
- Language:Chinese
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Abstract:
For patients with poor liver function as a result of the final stage of liver disease,liver transplantation is the best way to prevent them from death.Recently,liver transplantation in China get a rapid development,however,patients who need liver transplantation are much more than livers that can be transplanted,that is a bottleneck problem for liver transplantation,adoption of brain death must be a useful way to deal with this problem.More than a hundred countries have adopted brain death and their liver transplantation developed much better than China.Thus,we should pay more attention to brain death and corresponding legislation to promote the development of liver transplantation.
