Invited Commentary

Donor scarcity, the principal challenge of kidney allocation today, is a result of the success of our field. Over recent decades, we have accomplished dramatic improvements in immunosuppression, perioperative care, and approaches to patient selection. As a result, successful kidney transplantation is all but taken for granted. Consequently, the demand for kidneys continues to far outpace the supply of donated organs. One strategy has been to re-examine how best to use organ categories that were previously thought to be marginal or unusable, such as those from donors infected with hepatitis C virus (HCV).
Source: Journal of the American College of Surgeons - Category: Surgery Authors: Tags: Invited commentary Source Type: research