Northwestern University Feinberg School of Medicine, Chicago.
Northwestern University Industrial Engineering and Management Sciences, Evanston, Illinois, USA.
Curr Opin Organ Transplant. 2023 Apr 1;28(2):145-148. doi: 10.1097/MOT.0000000000001049. Epub 2023 Jan 24.
The donation and kidney transplant system in the United States is challenged with reducing the number of kidneys that are procured for transplant but ultimately discarded. That number can reach 20% of donated kidneys each year.
The reasons for these discards, in the face of overwhelming demand, are multiple.
The authors review the data supporting a number of potential causes for high discard rates as well as provide potential solutions to the problem.
美国的捐赠和肾脏移植系统面临着减少获取但最终丢弃的肾脏数量的挑战。每年捐赠的肾脏中有 20%可能被丢弃。
尽管需求巨大,但这些丢弃的原因有很多。
作者回顾了支持高丢弃率的一些潜在原因的数据,并提供了解决该问题的潜在方法。