Conceptual aspects of a liver transplant program in Uruguay

Authors

  • Luis Ruso
  • Oscar Balboa

Keywords:

trasplant, liver

Abstract

increasing indication and encouraging results. The
present impossibility of offering this therapeutical
option to carriers of terminal hepatopaty is a
serious gap in health care which should be briefly
modified. The aim of this paper es to analyse
conceptual aspects as regards material, legal and
economical resources which are a basis far
discussion of a project far the developement of a
hepatic transplantation program in Uruguay.
The authors consider it absolutely necessary to
count on a highly complex facilities hospital, a
multiapproach team with adequate technical
capacity and an efficient program of organ
obten/ion. Besides, the features and dimension of
the programa require a thorogh economical
analysis. The creation of a multiapproach team so
as to analyse the feasability of carrying out hepatic
transplantation in our country is proposed.

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Published

1996-04-18

How to Cite

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Ruso L, Balboa O. Conceptual aspects of a liver transplant program in Uruguay. Cir. Urug. [Internet]. 1996 Apr. 18 [cited 2024 Nov. 23];66(1):42-4. Available from: https://revista.scu.org.uy/index.php/cir_urug/article/view/4214

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