United Network for Organ Sharing Rule Changes and Their Effects on Kidney and Liver Transplant Outcomes.

CONCLUSIONS: Liver transplants showed a higher risk of lower viability with travel, and the Share 35 rule did not appear to change this result. Kidney transplant outcomes appear to have improved after the kidney allocation system change. Potential strategies for minimizing cold ischemia time and improving outcomes include more free-standing organ recovery centers in centralized locations. PMID: 30836905 [PubMed - as supplied by publisher]
Source: Experimental and Clinical Transplantation : official journal of the Middle East Society for Organ Transplantation - Category: Transplant Surgery Authors: Tags: Exp Clin Transplant Source Type: research