When a renal transplant candidate's only medically-acceptable living kidney donor is ABO
incompatible, the most common practice is to place them on the deceased donor list. Over …

Transplantation across previously incompatible immunological barriers Page 1 REVIEW
Transplantation across previously incompatible immunological barriers Colm C. Magee Renal …

Kidney and pancreas transplantation in 2005 improved in quantity and outcome quality,
despite the increasing average age of kidney graft recipients, with 56% aged 50 or older …

This article examines OPTN/SRTR data on kidney and pancreas transplantation for 2004
and the previous decade, and discusses recent changes in kidney-pancreas (KP) allocation …

Kidney transplantation from blood type A2/A2B donors to type B recipients (A2→ B) has
increased dramatically under the current Kidney Allocation System (KAS). Among living …

Abstract “Those who do not know the past are destined to repeat it”. The current system for
the allocation of deceased donor kidneys that was implemented in December 2014 (termed …

Blood group B candidates, many of whom represent ethnic minorities, have historically had
diminished access to deceased donor kidney transplantation (DDKT). The new national …

Background. To investigate any differences in access to transplant and post-transplant
outcomes for ethnic minority patients in the United Kingdom, national data on ethnicity of …

In 2002, the Organ Procurement and Transplantation Network (OPTN) Minority Affairs
Committee (MAC) implemented a national, prospective,“variance of practice” to allow …

One component of the new national kidney allocation system (KAS) in the United States that
was implemented on December 4, 2014, was the allocation of kidneys from A 2 and A 2 B …