Center Petitioning of the Us Department of State Increases Access to Living Kidney Donation for Legal Immigrants and Naturalized Citizens on the Transplant Waiting List

Live donor transplantation (LD) affords shorter wait time and better outcomes. For legal immigrants or naturalized citizens in the USA, LD candidates may exist in their country of origin but are not considered because of immigration restrictions. We evaluated the impact of targeted petitioning of the US Department of State (DOS) on access to potential foreign national (FN) LD candidates.
Source: Journal of the American College of Surgeons - Category: Surgery Authors: Tags: Transplantation and Tissue Engineering Source Type: research