Open AccessThe 'blood group O problem' in kidney transplantation--time to change?
Author(s) -
Petra Glander,
Klemens Budde,
Danilo Schmidt,
Tom Florian Fuller,
M. Giessing,
H. H. Neumayer,
Lutz Liefeldt
Publication year - 2010
Publication title -
nephrology dialysis transplantation
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 1.654
H-Index - 168
eISSN - 1460-2385
pISSN - 0931-0509
DOI - 10.1093/ndt/gfp779
Subject(s) - medicine , abo blood group system , kidney transplantation , transplantation , surgery , kidney , waiting list , gastroenterology
Patients with blood group O have disadvantages in the allocation of deceased donor organs in the Eurotransplant Kidney Allocation System and fewer ABO-compatible living donors. In order to investigate the consequences of this dilemma, we analysed the outcome of patients with blood group O in our transplantation programme.
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