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The success of solid organ transplantation induced an increased need for grafts and the necessary registration of transplant candidates on long waiting lists. Many patients die while waiting for transplantation, even in Belgium where the donation rates have been high these last years. In order to fight this lack of donor organs, the transplant centers widened donation criteria for brain dead donors, including older age and potential transmissible diseases. In addition, programs of donation after circulation death have been developed, first for kidneys, then for livers and recently for the hearts. Organ donation after euthanasia is also regularly performed in Belgium. All these policies lead to the fact that organ donation rates stay high in Belgium, and particularly in the Liege region, but efforts are still ahead if we aim to reduce waiting list mortalities. ; Le succès des transplantations a entraîné un besoin important en organes et la nécessité d'inscrire les patients candidats à la greffe sur de longues listes d'at- tente. De trop nombreux patients meurent avant d'avoir pu bénéficier de la transplantation, malgré le fait que la Belgique soit un des pays du monde où le taux de prélève- ment est, proportionnellement, le plus élevé. Afin de lutter contre ce manque d'organes, les centres de transplanta- tion ont élargi les critères de prélèvement des donneurs en mort cérébrale, tant au niveau de leur âge qu'au niveau de certaines maladies potentiellement transmissibles. De plus, des programmes de prélèvement à partir de donneurs en mort circulatoire ont également été développés avec succès, d'abord pour les reins et le foie, plus récemment pour le cœur. Les prélèvements d'organes sont également réalisables après euthanasie. L'ensemble de ces politiques fait que le taux de prélèvement d'organes après décès reste élevé en Belgique, et particulièrement dans la région liégeoise, mais des efforts doivent encore être réalisés si l'on veut encore réduire la mortalité en liste d'attente. ; Peer reviewed

For many reasons, laparoscopic surgery has been performed worldwide. Due to logistical constraints its first steps occurred in Lubumbashi only in 2008. The aim of this presentation was to report authors' ten-month experience of laparoscopic surgery at Lubumbashi Don Bosco Missionary Hospital (LDBMH): problems encountered and preliminary results. The study was a transsectional descriptive work with a convenient sampling. It only took in account patients with abdominal surgical condition who consented to undergo laparoscopic surgery and when logistical constraints of the procedure were found. Independent variables were patients' demographic parameters, staff, equipments and consumable. Dependent parameters included surgical abdominal diseases, intra-operative circumstances and postoperative short term mortality and morbidity. Between 1(st)April 2009 and 28(th) February 2010, 75 patients underwent laparoscopic surgery at the LDBMH making 1.5% of all abdominal surgical activities performed at this institution. The most performed procedure was appendicectomy for acute appendicitis (64%) followed by exploratory laparoscopy for various abdominal chronic pain (9.3%), adhesiolysis for repeated periods of subacute intestinal obstruction in previously laparotomised patients (9.3%), laparoscopic cholecystectomy for post acute cholecystitis on gall stone (5.3%) and partial colectomy for symptomatic redundant sigmoid colon (2.7%). There were 4% of conversion to laparotomy. Laparoscopic surgery consumed more time than laparotomy, mostly when dealing with appendicitis. However, postoperatively, patients did quite well. There was no death in this series. Nursing care was minimal with early discharge. These results are encouraging to pursue laparoscopic surgery with DRC Government and NGO's supports. ; Peer reviewed