title: [Deceased organ donors, legal regulations governing diagnosis of brain death, overview of donors and liver transplants in the Czech Republic].
abstract: The key restriction of transplantation medicine globally, as well as in the Czech Republic, concerns the lack of organs. The number of deceased donors, and thus the availability of organ transplants, has been stagnating in our country. The paper describes current legal regulations governing the dia-gnosis of brain death and primary legal and medical criteria for the contraindication of the deceased for organ explantation, gives an overview of the number of liver transplants, age structure, and diagnosis resulting in brain death of the deceased liver donors in the Czech Republic.
authors.affiliation: Transplantcentrum IKEM Praha. evpo@ikem.cz
authors.forename: E
authors.initials: E
authors.lastname: Pokorná
mesh_terms: D001926:Brain Death / Q000331:legislation & jurisprudence*; D018153:Czech Republic; D006801:Humans; D008107:Liver Diseases / Q000601:surgery*; D016031:Liver Transplantation; D014019:Tissue Donors / Q000600:supply & distribution*; D009927:Tissue and Organ Procurement / Q000331:legislation & jurisprudence*; D019737:Transplants / Q000600:supply & distribution*; D014850:Waiting Lists