title: [Update in transplant surgery with special reference to the problem of organ donation].
abstract: The authors analyze the advances made and the current state of the art in transplant medicine and surgery, dealing at some length with the problems relating to organ donation. Particular attention is devoted to the provisions of law currently applicable in this field and those aspects currently under debate, comparing the situation in Italy with that obtaining elsewhere in Europe. The authors also focus on the need to make medical practitioners fully aware of the problem so as to achieve practical collaboration of the type possible today in West Germany.
mesh_terms: D001926:Brain Death; D005060:Europe; D006801:Humans; D009927:Tissue and Organ Procurement / Q000331:legislation & jurisprudence / Q000592:standards / Q000639:trends; D014184:Transplantation, Homologous
vernacular_title: Attualità in chirurgia dei trapianti con particolare riguardo al problema della donazione d'organo.