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Including patients’ preferences in kidney allocation system could improve outcomes – News-Medical.Net

From the moment a kidney becomes available, there are just 24 hours to identify the recipient and carry out the transplant.

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From the moment a kidney becomes available, there are just 24 hours to identify the recipient and carry out the transplant. Waiting lists are extremely long, available organs are few and not all of them are ‘ideal’. Furthermore, a recipient has the ability to ‘refuse’ a kidney, for instance by continuing with the dialysis treatment while waiting for a better moment, thus complicating the race against time to carry out the transplant.
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