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Conference Letter
Secretariat of the conference :
Service de Réanimation,
EHS Docteur Maouche , Alger
Tél/fax : +213 (0)21 939 082
+213 (0)21 939 072
Registration free
but obligatory on the website :
Registration deadline December, 31th 2009
The transplantation of organs, tissues and cells, a fascinating step in medicine, reviving many lives most often threatened, remains today the greatest challenge of our millenium.
Algiers, like Marseille, Rabat and Tunis, will host the 4th Franco-Maghrebian conference in january 2010. The theme will focus on development issues, and the sustainability of national programs of organs, tissues and cells transplantation.
This opportunuty will allow countries of the Maghreb, with the collaboration of the French Biomedicine Agency, to assess the activity of transplantation to analyze the steps already reached to better manage the future.
The increasing demand to the access to transplantation leads us to consider a new strategy of transplantation, based on the geographical concept, incriminating Maghreb countries because of their religious, ethical and cultural convergence.
Many steps have been reached, despite the difficulties for transplanting from an alive donor, but a donation from a brain-dead patient remains below our expectations. This finding is linked to cultural constraints, dominated by the sacred body, the establishment of a stereotyped organization for organs sampling from patients in a state of brain death, and concerns related to the failure of the transplant, which influences the psychological atmosphere. The aim is to improve the system of donation and transplantation based on a pragmatic approach, linked mainly to environmental knowledge.
If organ transplantation is technically controlled, its follow up is linked to the control of the rejection through a multidisciplinary laboratory equipped and efficient, the access to immunosuppressive therapeutics flexible and less aggressive, especially the adherence of treatment of the receiver.
The more organ donation and the number of transplants will increase, the more the impact on financial resources will grow and become a burden to the society. Shouldn't we alleviate this pressure by developping lines of prevention against diseases leading to transplantation? Better safe than sorry...
Pr A. Zerhouni
