The Council of Europe’s EDQM (European Directorate for the Quality of Medicines and HealthCare) Newsletter Transplant provides regular updates on transplantation-related developments across Europe. It covers policy, regulation, quality standards, and best practices related to organ donation, allocation, and transplant safety, ensuring harmonisation across European Union member states. Additionally, the newsletter shares news on scientific advances, ethical issues, and logistical challenges in transplantation.
Transplant is very relevant to pulmonary arterial hypertension patients as it remains the therapeutic option of choice when patients do not respond to treatment. The data for lung transplantation by country (pages 57-66) reveals how in many regions of the world, even in Europe, there are none or very few lung transplants being carried out. In the section on waiting lists for lung transplants there are many zeroes, indicating there are no facilities in that country. A very sad reality.
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