Trends in Discard of Kidneys from Hepatitis C Viremic Donors in the United States.

Su-Hsin ChangMassini MerzkaniKrista L LentineMei WangDavid A AxelrodSiddiq AnwarMark A SchnitzlerJason WellenWilliam C ChapmanTarek Alhamad

Published in: Clinical journal of the American Society of Nephrology : CJASN (2021)

Despite the decrease in kidney discard in recent years, kidneys from viremic (compared with aviremic seronegative) donors still had 48% higher odds of discard in 2019. The potential of these discarded organs to provide successful transplantation should be explored.

Keyphrases

kidney transplantation
cell therapy
stem cells
bone marrow
human health
climate change
mesenchymal stem cells