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Success Rate of Organ Transplant Increased in China
Lately a National Organ Transplant Forum was held in Bo'ao, Hainan Province. It is learned that China has become much mature in its surgery technology, transplant immunology, application of immunity inhibitor and preserving technology of organs since the country's famous medical expert Professor Wu Jieping performed the first kidney transplant operation 41 years back in 1960. The categories and success rate of clinical organ transplant operations such as kidney, liver, heart and marrow transplant operations have increased and have been at or approached world advanced level.
Sources told that China began its organ transplant study first with kidney transplant operation. So far, kidney transplanting have become operations most frequently undertaken in China. With most developed technology, China has promoted it to 29 provinces and cities across the country in recent years. It has become a routine operation for the treatment of last-phase kidney disease. By the end of 2000, China had performed 34,832 kidney transplant operations. The number of these last year alone exceeded 5,000. A group of comprehensive kidney transplant centers of scale have been set up. Besides, notable success also has been achieved in the transplanting of other organs.
Despite remarkable progress achieved by China's clinical organ transplant work, according to experts, there are still quite a lot of problems such as severe shortage of organ provider and lack of lawful protection. It goes without saying raised operation level, quality work and intensive study on new immunity inhibitors and properly controlling drug using are needed.
The forum was held by Beijing Novartis Co., Ltd. at which were more than 160 experts from the Chinese mainland and Taiwan.
By PD Online Staff Member Du Minghua
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