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SUBMITTER: Sapiano MRP
PROVIDER: S-EPMC6864734 | biostudies-literature | 2019 Sep
REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature
Sapiano Mathew R P MRP Jones Jefferson M JM Bowman James J Levi Marilyn E ME Basavaraju Sridhar V SV
American journal of transplantation : official journal of the American Society of Transplantation and the American Society of Transplant Surgeons 20190503 9
Under US Public Health Service guidelines, organ donors with risk factors for human immunodeficiency virus (HIV), hepatitis B virus (HBV), or hepatitis C virus (HCV) are categorized as increased risk donors (IRD). Previous studies have suggested that IRD organs are utilized at lower rates than organs from standard risk donors (SRD), but these studies were conducted prior to universal donor nucleic acid test screening. We conducted risk-adjusted analyses to determine the effect of IRD designation ...[more]