Split‐Liver Allocation: An Underused Opportunity to Expand Access to Liver Transplantation

Children and adults of short stature are particularly disadvantaged in the current regional allocation system, which is under active revision by the UNOS Liver and Intestinal Organ Transplantation Committee.1 The reasons for this persistent health disparity include national policy that prioritizes local adult over national pediatric candidates,2 discordance in donor-recipient size matching, 3 and other clinical considerations not accounted for in the MELD-Na score.4 Split-liver transplantation (SLT) presents a potential opportunity to address these disparities and help improve access to transplantation for children and adults of short stature. This article is protected by copyright. All rights reserved.

• Publication year

  2019

• Venue

  Liver transplantation

• Publication date

  2019-05-01

• Fields of study

  Medicine

• Identifiers
  DOI 10.1002/lt.25458PMID 30920162
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  Open on Semantic Scholar

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  Semantic Scholar, PubMed

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