New French heart allocation system: Comparison with Eurotransplant and US allocation systems.
Am J Transplant
; 20(5): 1236-1243, 2020 05.
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| ID: mdl-32037718
ABSTRACT
Graft allocation rules for heart transplantation are necessary because of the shortage of heart donors, resulting in high waitlist mortality. The Agence de la biomédecine is the agency in charge of the organ allocation system in France. Assessment of the 2004 urgency-based allocation system identified challenging limitations. A new system based on a score ranking all candidates was implemented in January 2018. In the revised system, medical urgency is defined according to candidate characteristics rather than the treatment modalities, and an interplay between urgency, donor-recipient matching, and geographic sharing was introduced. In this article, we describe in detail the new allocation system and compare these allocation rules to Eurotransplant and US allocation policies.
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01-internacional
Base de dados:
MEDLINE
Assunto principal:
Obtenção de Tecidos e Órgãos
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Transplante de Coração
Tipo de estudo:
Prognostic_studies
Limite:
Humans
País/Região como assunto:
Europa
Idioma:
En
Ano de publicação:
2020
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Article