Waiting List

Governor Kathy Hochul of New York signed the New York State Living Donor Support Act to provide direct reimbursement up to $10,000 to living organ donors, according to an American Kidney Fund press release.

Kidney transplantation is considered the best long-term treatment for patients with end-stage kidney disease, yet less than 20% of incident patients are wait-listed for transplant within 1 year of starting dialysis.

During the COVID-19 pandemic, the waiting list times for pediatric heart transplants were longer than before the pandemic, but waiting list mortality did not change, according to a research letter published in JAMA Network Open.

Pediatric patients who received care at for-profit dialysis facilities experienced significantly longer time for placement on the waitlist and receipt of a kidney transplant compared with those who received care at a nonprofit facility.

Members of the U.S. Senate Committee on Finance grilled leaders of the United Network for Organ Sharing during a recent congressional hearing on poor management of the nation’s organ supply.

Ability to travel increases a kidney transplant candidate’s access to kidney transplantation and improves the patient’s long-term survival, according to data published in the American Journal of Transplantation.

Early second kidney transplantations correlate with patient survival compared with those waitlisted and on dialysis, according to data published in the Clinical Journal of the American Society of Nephrology.

Restoring pre-transplant waiting time for deceased-donor kidney recipients with allograft failure within 1 year of transplant may benefit the kidney waitlist through decrease in proportion of deceased-donor kidneys discarded.

Research from the Cleveland Clinic showed less than half of patients who might reap the most benefits from kidney transplantation, deemed high priority based on estimated post-transplant survival score, were placed on the waitlist.

Survival on heart transplant waiting lists increased over time in patients with or without ventricular assist devices, poor functional status and United Network for Organ Sharing status 1 and status 2 candidates, researchers found.