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. 2025 Jun 12:38:14668.
doi: 10.3389/ti.2025.14668. eCollection 2025.

The New Era of Organ Transplantation in Greece: Time to Converge With the Western World

Dimitrios Moris  1 , Emmanouil Giorgakis  2
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The New Era of Organ Transplantation in Greece: Time to Converge With the Western World

Dimitrios Moris et al. Transpl Int. .
No abstract available

Keywords: Greece; innovation; organ allocation; organ and tissue donation and transplantation; policies.

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The authors declare that the research was conducted in the absence of any commercial or financial relationships that could be construed as a potential conflict of interest.

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FIGURE 1
(A) Trends of total organ donation rates during the period 2019–2024. (B) Volume trends of transplanted organs during the period 2019-2024. (C). Increasing kidney donation numbers during the same period (orange line: deceased donors, blue line: living donors).
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