Implementing a Height-Based Rule for the Allocation of Pediatric Donor Livers to Adults: A Liver Simulated Allocation Model Study

Liver Transpl. 2021 Jul;27(7):1058-1060. doi: 10.1002/lt.25986. Epub 2021 Feb 17.

Authors

Jin Ge^#¹, Nicholas Wood^#², Dorry L Segev³, Jennifer C Lai¹, Sommer Gentry^{2

3}

Affiliations

¹ Division of Gastroenterology and Hepatology, Department of Medicine, University of California-San Francisco, San Francisco, CA.
² Department of Mathematics, United States Naval Academy, Annapolis, MD.
³ Department of Surgery, Johns Hopkins Hospital, Baltimore, MD.

^# Contributed equally.

No abstract available

Publication types

Research Support, N.I.H., Extramural

MeSH terms

Adult
Child
Humans
Liver / surgery
Liver Transplantation*
Living Donors
Tissue Donors
Tissue and Organ Procurement*
Waiting Lists

Grants and funding