We’re Throwing Away Too Many Viable Kidneys, Study Suggests
By Cody Cottier | December 7, 2017 4:00 pm
Researchers found that thousands of potentially usable kidneys have gone to waste across the United States in recent years, leaving many patients waiting unnecessarily for transplants.
The study, published Thursday in the Clinical Journal of the American Society of Nephrology, highlights inefficiencies in the transplant system. According to data collected over the past 15 years, in roughly 7,600 unilateral kidney transplants—those in which one kidney was used and one discarded—about 5,000 of those thrown out could have been transplanted successfully.
http://blogs.discovermagazine.com/d-brief/2017/12/07/us-wasting-kidneys/#.WivdrTdrz82
