Category: News

Save the date: Annual Meeting 2024

March 18, 2024 | Homepage, News

We are pleased to announce the dates of the Annual Meeting 2024: October 10-11, 2024. The meeting will be held at Van der Valk hotel Wassenaar.
Please note that this is not the same location as last year.

Further information will be shared in the coming months. Don’t forget to mark your calendar and save the dates of the Annual Meeting 2024.

Please visit and bookmark the website of the Eurotransplant Annual Meeting for the latest details and information.

Obituary Professor Guy Alexandre (1934-2024)

February 26, 2024 | Homepage, News

With sadness we received the message that Professor Guy Alexandre has passed away on February 14 at the age of 89. Guy Alexandre was one of the pioneers of transplantation and closely involved in the foundation of Eurotransplant. After performing innovative studies on experimental transplantation in dogs, Guy Alexandre was from the very beginning a dedicated and active collaborator with Eurotransplant. Already in the first manual of Eurotransplant in 1968 his center, the Clinique Universitaire St. Pierre in Louvain, Belgium, was indicated as BLA (Belgium Louvain Alexandre) and it is still the identification of this transplant center at ET. Prof Alexandre was the first surgeon who introduced the concept of organ transplantation from patients after “coma dépassé”. This was 5 years before the concept of irreversible coma defining death by neurologic criteria (brain-death) was accepted by the Harvard Committee.

Next to his excellent clinical expertise, Guy Alexandre was one of the initiators of ABO incompatible transplants. Already in 1985, he published strategies to perform ABO incompatible renal transplantations showing once more his innovative vision. As a follow up of these studies, he continued research in the field of xenotransplantation after his retirement. The Eurotransplant community would like to thank Professor Alexandre for his continuous support and wishes his family all strength with this great loss.

Preliminary Eurotransplant annual figures 2023 online

January 23, 2024 | Homepage, News

LEIDEN (The Netherlands) – Eurotransplant publishes the preliminary annual figures 2023 in the eight Eurotransplant countries. Last year, 6815 organs (2022: 6454) from 2079 deceased donors (2022: 1938) were successfully allocated through Eurotransplant to patients on the waiting list. The year 2023 ended with 13,498 patients (2022: 13,276) active on the waiting list.  

International cooperation  

In 2023, 22.2% (2022: 21.6%) of all allocated organs were exchanged cross-border between the Eurotransplant member states. Thanks to this international exchange, a suitable donor organ could be found for many patients in the different Eurotransplant member states. This specifically applies to patients in special groups such as children, patients with acute organ failure (high urgency patients) as well as patients with a complex medical background (highly immunized patients). Due to the international cooperation within Eurotransplant the chance of receiving a suitable organ in time is higher for these specific patient groups.   

Furthermore, organ exchange between eight countries within Eurotransplant ensures that donor organs that would otherwise remain unused in one country – because there is no suitable recipient for this organ in that country – become available for patients in other countries.   

Statistics per country

Please find detailed tables and charts with key figures on waiting list, donation, and transplantation, specified by organ, by country and by year (including 2023) in the online statistics library (www.eurotransplant.org/statistics/statistics-library/).  

Additional information

Please be aware that slight deviations in the numbers can occur when comparing Eurotransplant figures with figures provided by national organizations in Eurotransplant member states. This may be caused by differences in calculation (e.g., counting double lung transplant as 1 or 2 transplants) and times of registration (counting based on time of donation or time of transplantation). Eurotransplant only reports on utilized donors (deceased donors of which at least one organ was used for transplantation). In every table in the statistics library, the precise method of counting is mentioned.  

Contact details

To find out more about the figures of Eurotransplant, visit www.eurotransplant.org/statistics/statistics-library/.  For (press) questions, please contact us via pressinfo@eurotransplant.org.  

Eurotransplant publishes Annual Report 2022

May 22, 2023 | Homepage, News

We are pleased to announce the publication of the Eurotransplant Annual Report 2022.

In this edition we present the key statistics on developments in waiting list, organ donation and transplantation in all Eurotransplant member states. Furthermore, an overview is presented of the activities that took place within Eurotransplant, decisions that were made as well as the financial status.

Detailed statistics for each organ are presented in ‘Collections’ in the Eurotransplant online statistics library.

The Annual Report includes clickable (web)links which make it easy to navigate through the document. This report will only be available online and will not be distributed by post. However, a hard-copy infographic, which shows the main highlights of Eurotransplant in 2022, will be published and distributed soon.

Best viewing experience of the digital Annual Report 2022 is guaranteed when using Acrobat Reader. Eurotransplant publishes two versions:

• Low resolution – minimum download time

• High resolution – longer download time, but higher quality of images; recommended for printing and/or enlarging

No part of this report may be reproduced without prior permission of Eurotransplant. For permissions or request of specific images, please contact: communication@eurotransplant.org

Completed: Implementation Virtual Crossmatch – January 24, 2023

January 24, 2023 | Homepage, News

On Tuesday January 24, 2023, the virtual crossmatch has been implemented succesfully (R1-2023) for kidney (ETKAS and ESP), kidney+pancreas and the pancreas match (EPAS). 

Please note that after the implementation of the virtual crossmatch the HLA of all deceased donors must be reported through the new immunology web service of Eurotransplant. When a valid and approved full phenotype cannot be derived from an HML file, a lab employee is able to manually correct the donor’s full phenotype. Also, if an HML is not available, manual entry of the full phenotype must be done through the new immunology application. The immunology application has been published on the Applications page. The tutorials have been published on the Virtual Crossmatch project page. 

Together with the implementation of the virtual crossmatch the new HLA table will be implemented. According to the new HLA table it will be possible to enter the 11 loci:
HLA-A, -B, -C, -DRB1, -DRB3/4/5, -DQB1, -DQA1, -DPA1 and -DPB1 on allelic, split, and/or broad antigen level for both HLA typing and unacceptables for the recipients. More information about the new HLA table can be found on the ETRL website.

If you have any further questions about the virtual crossmatch project, please contact us through virtual-crossmatch@eurotransplant.org. To read more about the virtual crossmatch project, you can visit the project page on our member site.

Preliminary Eurotransplant annual figures 2022 online

January 23, 2023 | Homepage, News

LEIDEN (The Netherlands) – Eurotransplant publishes the preliminary annual figures 2022 in the eight Eurotransplant countries. Last year, 6454 organs (2021: 6398) from 1938 deceased donors (2021: 1897) were successfully allocated through Eurotransplant to patients on the waiting list. The year 2022 ended with 13,276 patients (2021: 13,460) active on the waiting list.  

International cooperation  

In 2022, 21.6% (2021: 20.9%) of all allocated organs were exchanged cross-border between the Eurotransplant member states. Thanks to this international exchange, a suitable donor organ could be found for many patients in the different Eurotransplant member states. This specifically applies to patients in special groups such as children, patients with acute organ failure (high urgency patients) as well as patients with a complex medical background (highly immunized patients). Due to the international cooperation within Eurotransplant the chance of receiving a suitable organ in time, is higher for these specific patient groups.   

Furthermore, organ exchange between eight countries within Eurotransplant ensures that donor organs that would otherwise remain unused in one country – because there is no suitable recipient for this organ in that country – become available for patients in other countries.   

Statistics per country  

Please find detailed tables and charts with key figures on waiting list, donation, and transplantation, specified by organ, by country and by year (including 2022) in the online statistics library (www.eurotransplant.org/statistics/statistics-library/).  

Additional information

Please be aware that slight deviations in the numbers can occur when comparing Eurotransplant figures with figures provided by national organizations in Eurotransplant member states. This may be caused by differences in calculation (e.g., counting double lung transplant as 1 or 2 transplants) and times of registration (counting based on time of donation or time of transplantation). Eurotransplant only reports on utilized donors (deceased donors of which at least one organ was used for transplantation). In every table in the statistics library, the precise method of counting is mentioned.  

Contact details  

To find out more about the figures of Eurotransplant, visit www.eurotransplant.org/statistics/statistics-library/.  

For questions, please contact us via pressinfo@eurotransplant.org.