New Organ Allocation Criteria Associated With Decreased Deaths On Liver Transplant Waiting List

Changing the method by which donated livers are allocated to potential transplant patients appears to have decreased the number of deaths among individuals on the waiting list as well as shortened the time to transplantation, according to a report in the November issue of Archives of Surgery, one of the JAMA/Archives journals. [click link for full article]

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Filed under: Transplants on November 20th, 2007