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Measuring kidney transplantation activity
Lima, Bruno A.; Mendes, Miguel; Alves, Helena[ENG] Kidney allocation from cadaveric donors must balance two main principles: medical utility and justice. The principle of medical benefit is gauged by maximizing efficiency in the use of organs and the principle of justice by its effectiveness, ensuring that all patients have a reasonable opportunity of transplantation. In this paper we present some metrics that, when applied to candidates for kidney transp...
Hypersensitized candidates to kidney transplantation in Portugal
Lima, Bruno A.; Miguel, Mendes; Alves, Helena[ENG] The presence of donor specific anti-HLA antibodies is generally a contraindication for transplantation and nowadays the identification of these antibodies are part of most pre-transplantation evaluations. In Portugal, the implemented protocol for registration and maintenance of the active list for kidney transplant includes a complement -dependent cytotoxity (CDC) panel-reactive antibody (PRA) screening m...
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