• Board broadens options for national kidney paired donation pilot
  Thursday, November 18, 2010
  A new protocol will allow pairs to be matched with a "non-directed donor."
  

• Kidney paired donation pilot program to begin matching in October
  Tuesday, October 5, 2010
  The match run identifies medically compatible pairs of potential living kidney donors and candidates.
  

• Board approves resource to assess deceased donor kidney quality
  Tuesday, June 22, 2010
  A key issue in kidney allocation is a medical assessment of the organ's long-term function.
  

• Participants named for national pilot kidney paired donation project
  Friday, February 19, 2010
  Four organizations have been selected to enroll patients and potential living donors in a national pilot project.
  

• Guidance regarding H1N1 and implications for transplantation
  Monday, January 4, 2010
  This communication is intended to provide information to transplant centers and OPOs as they prepare for the upcoming flu season.
  

• Board approves living donor kidney programs
  Tuesday, November 17, 2009
  The 236 transplant programs met criteria for key personnel and enhancing living donor safety.
  

• Report identifies 2008 transplant trends
  Monday, November 2, 2009
  This annual report and is based largely on data pertaining to the 10-year period, from 1998 to 2007.
  

• Committee analysis on disease transmission featured in American Journal of Transplantation
  Thursday, September 17, 2009
  In organ transplantation, there is always some risk that a disease present in the donor can be conveyed to recipients.
  

• Board addresses liver allocation, lung allocation, living donor policy
  Wednesday, June 24, 2009
  A new policy is designed to broaden access to donated livers for candidates at greatest short-term risk of dying without a transplant.
  

• OPTN statement regarding liver transplant waiting times and allocation
  Wednesday, June 24, 2009
  Recent news regarding liver transplantation has raised public questions regarding how donated livers are allocated.
  

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