La greffe hépatique en France : aspects réglementaires

Liver transplantation has really been developing since the 1980s and represents today an efficient and widely recognized treatment of end stage liver disease and selected liver tumors. Regulations applied to liver transplantation are common to other organ transplantations and define precisely the organisation of procurement and transplantation activities. From the ethical point of view, specific issues need to be addressed. These issues regard essentially the difficulties of finding a compromise between equity in access to the graft and efficacy, as well as questions raised by the development of liver transplantation from living donors.