An analysis of the UK national pancreas allocation scheme

Front Transplant. 2024 Aug 15:3:1408838. doi: 10.3389/frtra.2024.1408838. eCollection 2024.

Jeevan Prakash Gopal¹, Sean P Gavan², Kerry Burke^{1

3}, Stephen Birch^{2

4}, Titus Augustine^{1

5}

¹ Manchester Centre for Transplantation, Manchester Royal Infirmary, Manchester University NHS Foundation Trust, Manchester, United Kingdom.
² Manchester Centre for Health Economics, Division of Population Health, Health Services Research and Primary Care, School of Health Sciences, Faculty of Biology, Medicine and Health, The University of Manchester, Manchester, United Kingdom.
³ Department of Vascular Surgery, Manchester Royal Infirmary, Manchester University NHS Foundation Trust, Manchester, United Kingdom.
⁴ Centre for Business and Economics of Health, University of Queensland, Brisbane, QLD, Australia.
⁵ Faculty of Biology, Medicine and Health, Division of Diabetes, Endocrinology and Gastroenterology, University of Manchester, Manchester, United Kingdom.

No abstract available

Keywords: beta cell replacement; islet transplantation; organ utilisation; pancreas allocation scheme; pancreas transplantation.