[Multi-tissue donor: a reachable option]. / El donante multitejido: una opción a nuestro alcance.

The clinical use of human tissues is a therapeutic reality in many diseases, observing a spectacular increase in their demand in recent years. This has also generated an increase in the demand for donors which, in regarding to obtaining tissues, is not limited to brain death donors. Consequently, tissues obtained from cardiorespiratory arrest donors must be promoted in our hospitals. With this purpose, we present our experience in the last five years and the mechanisms we used to reach these goals. During this period, an awareness and health care staff information campaign was carried out in the Emergency and Hemodynamic areas. The next step will be to extend this campaign to the rest of the hospital staff. We believe that the mechanisms needed to obtain hospital staff collaboration in the detection of multi-tissue donors is to offer updated information on the indications and therapeutic advantages of clinical use of human tissues, favoring hospital awareness on this subject and therefore the detection of potential donors.

[Indications and long-term outcomes for solid organ transplant. Quality of life in solid organ transplant recipients]. / Indicaciones y resultados a largo plazo de los trasplantes de órganos sólidos. Calidad de vida en pacientes trasplantados.

Organ transplant constitutes one of the most encouraging advances in the history of the medicine. The organ transplants that were a distant challenge in the seventies currently are a routine procedure in the medical practice that has contributed to extending survival and quality of life in the general population. Spain has reached the highest rate for donation and transplants per one million inhabitants worldwide, this extraordinary health care work being a combined achievement of Spanish Health Care System. The objective of this article is to review the indications of solid organ transplants and their long-term outcomes, evaluating the impact on the health-related quality of life in solid organ transplant recipients.