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The major obstacle to organ transplantation today is the limited organ supply. It is estimated that only 1–4% of the total number of people dying in hospitals and about 10% of those dying in Intensive Care Units (ICUs) die in the situation known as “brain death” [1–5], and that of these percentages, only 15–67% become organ donors [2–7].
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Navarro, A. (1995). Potential donors and brain death epidemiology in the region of Madrid. In: Touraine, J.L., Traeger, J., Bétuel, H., Dubernard, J.M., Revillard, J.P., Dupuy, C. (eds) Organ Shortage: The Solutions. Transplantation and Clinical Immunology, vol 26. Springer, Dordrecht. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-94-011-0201-8_20
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