Benaragama, SK;
Tymkewycz, T;
John, BJ;
Davenport, A;
Lindsey, B;
Nicol, D;
Olsburgh, J;
... Fernando, BS; + view all
(2014)
Do we need a different organ allocation system for kidney transplants using donors after circulatory death?
BMC Nephrol
, 15
, Article 83. 10.1186/1471-2369-15-83.
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Abstract
There is no national policy for allocation of kidneys from Donation after circulatory death (DCD) donors in the UK. Allocation is geographical and based on individual/regional centre policies. We have evaluated the short term outcomes of paired kidneys from DCD donors subject to this allocation policy.
| Type: | Article |
|---|---|
| Title: | Do we need a different organ allocation system for kidney transplants using donors after circulatory death? |
| Location: | England |
| Open access status: | An open access version is available from UCL Discovery |
| DOI: | 10.1186/1471-2369-15-83 |
| Publisher version: | http://dx.doi.org/10.1186/1471-2369-15-83 |
| Language: | English |
| Additional information: | © 2014 Benaragama et al.; licensee BioMed Central Ltd. This is an Open Access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/2.0), which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly credited. The Creative Commons Public Domain Dedication waiver (http://creativecommons.org/publicdomain/zero/1.0/) applies to the data made available in this article, unless otherwise stated. PMCID: PMC4035739 |
| Keywords: | Donation after circulatory death; Allocation; Kidney; Delayed graft function; Cold ischemia time; |
| UCL classification: | UCL UCL > Provost and Vice Provost Offices > School of Life and Medical Sciences UCL > Provost and Vice Provost Offices > School of Life and Medical Sciences > Faculty of Medical Sciences UCL > Provost and Vice Provost Offices > School of Life and Medical Sciences > Faculty of Medical Sciences > Div of Medicine |
| URI: | https://discovery.ucl.ac.uk/id/eprint/1432335 |
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