The Organ Shortage Continues to Be a Crisis for Patients With End-stage Kidney Disease

JAMA Surg. 2023 Aug 1;158(8):787-788. doi: 10.1001/jamasurg.2023.0526.

Authors

Arthur J Matas¹, Robert A Montgomery², Jesse D Schold^{3

4}

Affiliations

¹ Division of Transplantation, Department of Surgery, University of Minnesota, Minneapolis.
² New York University Langone Transplant Institute, New York.
³ Department of Surgery, University of Colorado Anschutz Medical Campus, Aurora.
⁴ Department of Epidemiology, University of Colorado Anschutz Medical Campus, Aurora.

PMID: 37223921
DOI: 10.1001/jamasurg.2023.0526

No abstract available

Plain language summary

This Viewpoint describes the organ shortage for patients with end-stage kidney disease despite increases in kidney donations between 2000 and 2021.

MeSH terms

Humans
Kidney Failure, Chronic* / therapy
Living Donors
Tissue Donors
Tissue and Organ Procurement*