Over the past few months, I have been the representative voice of the largest transplant society in North America, a society that I value and am honored to represent.
The UNOS Living Donor committee felt these new requirements were critical to protect our living donors and to make programs accept more responsibility for those donors and the article contends that the testing and follow-up are “a major development in living donor protection.”īut what was most shocking was the article’s characterization of transplantation: “a field long regarded as a medical and ethical Wild West.” Sack also cited a number of horrible incidents that led to donor morbidity and/or mortality (27 of approximately 70,000). The article highlights the UNOS Board meeting of November 12, in which the Board accepted a series of recommendations by the Living Donor Committee to provide for mandated and timed follow up of all living kidney donors with required acceptable percentages for immediate implementation, as well as the need for concrete medical information including urine and serum creatinine measurements. Were you as outraged as I was (and still am)? Perhaps you read the recent New York Times article by Kevin Sack entitled, “ Hospitals Ordered to Do More to Protect Kidney Donors”.
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