Canadian Highly Sensitized Patient Program Report: A 1000 Kidney Transplants Story.

ABSTRACT:

Purpose

Highly sensitized patients (HSPs) with kidney failure have limited access to kidney transplantation and poorer post-transplant outcomes. Prioritizing HSPs in kidney allocation systems and expanding the pool of deceased donors available to them has helped to reduce their wait times for transplant and enhanced post-transplant outcomes. The Canadian HSP Program was established by Canadian Blood Services in collaboration with provincial organ donation and transplantation programs throughout the country to increase transplant opportunities for transplant candidates needing very specific matches from deceased kidney donors. Highly sensitized patients in the Canadian Program are defined by a calculated panel-reactive antibody (cPRA) ≥95%. In this report, we describe the evolution

SUBMITTER: Shamseddin MK 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC11672600 | biostudies-literature | 2024

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature