The Organ Procurement and Transplantation Network identified a 5.1% increase in transplants per 100 active patient years following its 2021 policy change, according to a presentation at the American Transplant Congress.
“On March 15, 2021, the Organ Procurement and Transplantation Network (OPTN) implemented a new policy removing donor-specific antibody (DSA) and OPTN regions as geographical units of allocation from deceased donor kidney policy and replaced those united with 250-nautical mile circles around the donor hospitals,” Amanda Robinson, MS, research scientist at United