[Difficulties in multi-organ harvesting].
Planning in transplantation is always a difficult process mainly due to the difficulty presented in attaining the required estimated, as well as the problems inherent in transplant units. According to data from European Countries and USA, the ideal number of donors is 50/1 million inhabitants per year, 90% of whom will be multiorgan donors. In 1999 Portugal climbed to 19.2 donors/1 million inhabitants per year, 80 of whom were kidney and liver donors. A data comparison with European Countries, particularly France shows that Portugal is well placed in terms of the number of transplants units per million of population (p.m.p.). In fact, the problem lies in the area of heart and lung transplantation where the annual figures are well below requirements. Estimates for the year 2000 forecast 18 heart transplantation, % the 1999 figure.
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D005602:France; D006757:Hospital Units / Q000600:supply & distribution; D006801:Humans; D011174:Portugal; D014019:Tissue Donors / Q000706:statistics & numerical data*; D020858:Tissue and Organ Harvesting / Q000706:statistics & numerical data*