Should the Current Zero HLA ABDR-Mismatch Priority in Kidney Allocation System Continue?
The current zero HLA ABDR-mismatch priority is highly biased against racial minority recipients, shunts a sizable number of O donors to non-O recipients, only makes a small improvement to organ utility, and should be removed from the allocation priority list.
Authors
- D.S. Keith (ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-8617-1884)
- Elizabeth Lessmann
Institutions
- Sacred Heart Health System (US)
Publication Details
- Journal
- Kidney360
- Published
- 2026-01-13
- DOI
- https://doi.org/10.34067/kid.0000001132
- Primary Topic
- Renal Transplantation Outcomes and Treatments
- Type
- article
- Field-Weighted Citation Impact
- 0.00