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

ABSTRACT

Organ transplant constitutes one of the mostencouraging 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 donationand 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 theirlong-term outcomes, evaluating the impact on thehealth-related quality of life in solid organ transplant recipients (AU)