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Regional Perspective: Developing Organ Transplantation in Sub-Saharan Africa

Regional Perspective: Developing Organ Transplantation in Sub-Saharan Africa Downloaded from http://journals.lww.com/transplantjournal by BhDMf5ePHKbH4TTImqenVJ2toCr/9wZZjwPUWvYES9lBjFbu9i0DAnSw4JagSjiU on 10/29/2020 Transplantation Society Regional Perspectives Regional Perspective: Developing Organ Transplantation in Sub-Saharan Africa 1,4 2 3 Elmi Muller, Sarah White, and Francis Delmonico Keywords: Developing countries/Africa. (Transplantation 2014;97: 975Y976) is performed. With that well-established experience, the South THE NEED FOR ORGAN TRANSPLANTATION African Transplant Society hosted the Global Alliance for IN SUB-SAHARAN AFRICA Transplantation meeting in Durban in August 2013 spon- The availability of renal replacement therapy is un- sored by The Transplantation Society. Representatives from equivocally lower in Africa than in any other region of the 10 countries were invited to participate, with the countries world; however, the true scale of the unmet need for treat- selected based on their need and ability to develop a trans- ment of end-stage kidney disease (ESKD) in the African plant program (Cameroon, Ethiopia, Ghana, Kenya, Malawi, region is unknown. Ideally, population-based studies, death Nigeria, Rwanda, Senegal, Sudan, Tunisia, and Zambia). registration data, and registries of dialysis and organ trans- Organ transplantation is an established practice in northern plantation would enable quantitative estimation of the un- Africa (Egypt, Morocco, Algeria, and Libya); however, this derlying burden of ESKD and its risk factors in the African symposium http://www.deepdyve.com/assets/images/DeepDyve-Logo-lg.png Transplantation Wolters Kluwer Health

Regional Perspective: Developing Organ Transplantation in Sub-Saharan Africa

Muller,, Elmi; White,, Sarah; Delmonico,, Francis
Transplantation , Volume 97 (10) – May 1, 2014
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Downloaded from http://journals.lww.com/transplantjournal by BhDMf5ePHKbH4TTImqenVJ2toCr/9wZZjwPUWvYES9lBjFbu9i0DAnSw4JagSjiU on 10/29/2020 Transplantation Society Regional Perspectives Regional Perspective: Developing Organ Transplantation in Sub-Saharan Africa 1,4 2 3 Elmi Muller, Sarah White, and Francis Delmonico Keywords: Developing countries/Africa. (Transplantation 2014;97: 975Y976) is performed. With that well-established experience, the South THE NEED FOR ORGAN TRANSPLANTATION African Transplant Society hosted the Global Alliance for IN SUB-SAHARAN AFRICA Transplantation meeting in Durban in August 2013 spon- The availability of renal replacement therapy is un- sored by The Transplantation Society. Representatives from equivocally lower in Africa than in any other region of the 10 countries were invited to participate, with the countries world; however, the true scale of the unmet need for treat- selected based on their need and ability to develop a trans- ment of end-stage kidney disease (ESKD) in the African plant program (Cameroon, Ethiopia, Ghana, Kenya, Malawi, region is unknown. Ideally, population-based studies, death Nigeria, Rwanda, Senegal, Sudan, Tunisia, and Zambia). registration data, and registries of dialysis and organ trans- Organ transplantation is an established practice in northern plantation would enable quantitative estimation of the un- Africa (Egypt, Morocco, Algeria, and Libya); however, this derlying burden of ESKD and its risk factors in the African symposium

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Transplantation – Wolters Kluwer Health

Published: May 1, 2014

Keywords: Developing countries/Africa

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