The right kidney for the right recipient: the status of deceased donor kidney allocation reform.
How best to allocate the limited number of deceased donor kidneys has been the subject of intense debate over past several months in the United States. Most of the major stakeholders have expressed their viewpoints in a series of recent publications. This manuscript aims to examine some of the most important issues in this discussion and to outline a possible path forward.
Stegall
Mark D
MD
von Liebig Transplant Center, Mayo Clinic, Rochester, Minnesota 55905, USA. stegall.mark@mayo.edu
D006801:Humans; D016030:Kidney Transplantation; D014019:Tissue Donors / Q000600:supply & distribution*; D009927:Tissue and Organ Procurement / Q000379:methods*; D014481:United States