PMID- 15084947
OWN - NLM
STAT- MEDLINE
DCOM- 20040430
LR  - 20190713
IS  - 0041-1337 (Print)
IS  - 0041-1337 (Linking)
VI  - 77
IP  - 4
DP  - 2004 Feb 27
TI  - It takes six to boogie: allocating cadaver kidneys in Eurotransplant.
PG  - 615-7
AB  - In March 1996, a new allocation point system for cadaver kidneys, the 
      Eurotransplant (ET) Kidney Allocation System (KAS), was introduced in ET, the 
      first multinational organ exchange organization. The aims of ETKAS were to reduce 
      average and maximum waiting time, to allow patients with rare human leukocyte 
      antigen (HLA) phenotypes or combinations to receive an "optimal" offer, to keep 
      the exchange rates between the participating countries balanced, and finally to 
      keep optimal graft survival, by means of HLA matching. Elderly patients and 
      highly sensitized patients profit in addition from special programs, the ET 
      Senior Program and the Acceptable Mismatch Program, respectively. All kidneys are 
      offered to the pool and are allocated according to the degree of HLA matching, 
      mismatch probability, waiting time, distance from the donor center, and balance 
      between the countries participating in ET. A summary of 6 years' experience with 
      the ETKAS is presented in this article.
FAU - Doxiadis, Ilias I N
AU  - Doxiadis II
AD  - Eurotransplant Reference Laboratory, Leiden, The Netherlands. doxiadis@lumc.nl
FAU - Smits, Jacqueline M A
AU  - Smits JM
FAU - Persijn, Guido G
AU  - Persijn GG
FAU - Frei, Ulrich
AU  - Frei U
FAU - Claas, Frans H J
AU  - Claas FH
LA  - eng
PT  - Journal Article
PT  - Research Support, Non-U.S. Gov't
PL  - United States
TA  - Transplantation
JT  - Transplantation
JID - 0132144
SB  - IM
MH  - Cadaver
MH  - Europe
MH  - Histocompatibility Testing/methods/trends
MH  - Humans
MH  - *Kidney
MH  - *Kidney Transplantation
MH  - *Resource Allocation
MH  - Waiting Lists
EDAT- 2004/04/16 05:00
MHDA- 2004/05/01 05:00
CRDT- 2004/04/16 05:00
PHST- 2004/04/16 05:00 [pubmed]
PHST- 2004/05/01 05:00 [medline]
PHST- 2004/04/16 05:00 [entrez]
AID - 00007890-200402270-00028 [pii]
AID - 10.1097/01.tp.0000103725.72023.d7 [doi]
PST - ppublish
SO  - Transplantation. 2004 Feb 27;77(4):615-7. doi: 10.1097/01.tp.0000103725.72023.d7.