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SUBMITTER: Yu K
PROVIDER: S-EPMC8448558 | biostudies-literature | 2020 Dec
REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature
Yu Kathleen K King Kristen K Husain Syed A SA Dube Geoffrey K GK Stevens Jacob S JS Ratner Lloyd E LE Cooper Matthew M Parikh Chirag R CR Mohan Sumit S
American journal of transplantation : official journal of the American Society of Transplantation and the American Society of Transplant Surgeons 20200516 12
There are limited data on the nonprocurement of kidneys from solid organ donors. Analysis of Standard Transplant Analysis and Research files was undertaken on all deceased donors in the United States with at least 1 solid organ recovered. From 2000 to 2018, 21 731 deceased donor kidneys (averaging 1144 kidneys per year) were not procured. No kidneys were procured from 8% of liver donors, 3% of heart donors, and 3% of lung donors. Compared to donors with all kidneys procured, those with none proc ...[more]