In light of recent proposed changes to the deceased donor allocation policy in the USA, considerable interest has arisen in the development of assessment tools to grade donor organ quality. Kahu and colleagues have suggested a new donor risk score that incorporates 10 distinct donor characteristics, correlating their presence with baseline histologic findings and graft outcomes.
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Huang, E., Danovitch, G. & Bunnapradist, S. Donor risk scores: can they predict renal transplant outcomes?. Nat Rev Nephrol 7, 247–248 (2011). https://doi.org/10.1038/nrneph.2011.39
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