Invited Letter Re: The kidney allocation system and its implications for pediatric recipients

Susanna M Nazarian; Matthew H Levine; Sandra Amaral

doi:10.1111/ajt.14882

Invited Letter Re: The kidney allocation system and its implications for pediatric recipients

Am J Transplant. 2018 Jul;18(7):1825. doi: 10.1111/ajt.14882. Epub 2018 May 14.

Authors

Susanna M Nazarian¹, Matthew H Levine², Sandra Amaral³

Affiliations

¹ Department of Surgery, Perelman School of Medicine at the University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, PA, USA.
² Department of Surgery, Perelman School of Medicine at the University of Pennsylvania, Surgical Co-Director of Transplantation, The Children's Hospital of Philadelphia, Philadelphia, PA, USA.
³ Department of Pediatrics, Perelman School of Medicine at the University of Pennsylvania, The Children's Hospital of Philadelphia, Center for Clinical Epidemiology and Biostatistics, Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, PA, USA.

PMID: 29673056
DOI: 10.1111/ajt.14882

No abstract available

Keywords: United Network for Organ Sharing (UNOS); editorial/personal viewpoint; ethics and public policy; kidney (allograft) function/dysfunction; kidney transplantation/nephrology; law/legislation; organ allocation; pediatrics; recipient selection.

Publication types

Letter
Comment

MeSH terms

Child
Humans
Tissue Donors*
Tissue and Organ Procurement*