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Organ transplants: the “cry of alarm” from doctors and patients

2024-02-22T05:41:42.650Z

Highlights: Surgeons are finding it increasingly difficult to obtain operating room slots to transplant patients. Pierre Roblin's daily life was already punctuated by long hours of connection to a large machine for two and a half years, twenty-seven years ago. Since then, the fifty-year-old from Clermont-Ferrand (Puy-de-Dôme) has benefited from a transplanted kidney. “One thing is certain: I won’t be able to last like this until the end of the year,” he slips.


Surgeons are finding it increasingly difficult to obtain operating room slots to transplant patients. At the initiative of the Company


“Dialysis is the antechamber of death…” Pierre Roblin's daily life was already punctuated by long hours of connection to a large machine for two and a half years, twenty-seven years ago.

Since then, the fifty-year-old from Clermont-Ferrand (Puy-de-Dôme) has benefited from a transplanted kidney.

But he is getting more and more tired.

His wife agreed to give him a new one, and Pierre Roblin took steps to get it back.

Except he has no idea when that will be possible.

“At the end of last year, I asked the CHU (

university hospital center

) where my file was.

They told me that they had no block date available at the moment and that we might have to go through a dialysis phase,” he worries.

Fatigue, frequent cough, very low immunity… “One thing is certain: I won’t be able to last like this until the end of the year…” slips Pierre Roblin.

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