740600login-checkNeonatal kidney transplants may be missed opportunity in organ shortage |
By Shawn M. Carter
More than 12,000 of 21,000 infants who died in 2020 could have been considered as viable organ donors, according to data from researchers at Allegheny General Hospital.
“We believe that neonatal kidney transplantation offers a ‘game-changing’ solution to the organ shortage crisis,” Dai Nghiem, MD, of the Westminster, California-based hospital, said in a press release. “This study looked at the U.S. alone, but if you replicate the findings across the globe then we have a huge untapped pool of available organs for transplants.” Read the full article in Healio.
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