The National Kidney Registry demonstrated success finding matches for the hardest to match patients:
"We nearly doubled (from 59 to 110) the number of patients transplanted who had cPRA scores above 80%. More impressive, 24% of our transplanted patients in 2013 had cPRA scores > 95%.
This powerful capability to find matches for the most highly sensitized patients is creating transplant opportunities for patients who were previously considered un-transplantable. We expect this life-saving trend to continue as the NKR volume expands."
The larger the pool of recipients and their non-matching donors, the greater the opportunity for creating swaps and chains.
Ask your center if they are a member of the National Kidney Registry.
www.kidneyregistry.org - click on Member Center Referral in upper left to see.
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