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"New French heart allocation system: comparison with Eurotransplant and United States allocation systems"

Recorded live on Tuesday, June 9th, 2020 • Hosted by the Thoracic and Critical Care Community of Practice (TCC COP)

"New French heart allocation system: comparison with Eurotransplant and United States allocation systems"
(doi.org/10.1111/ajt.15816)

In this article:
"Graft allocation rules for heart transplantation are necessary because of the shortage of heart donors, resulting in high waitlist mortality. The Agence de la biomédecine is the agency in charge of the organ allocation system in France. Assessment of the 2004 urgency‐based allocation system identified challenging limitations. A new system based on a score ranking all candidates was implemented in January 2018. In the revised system, medical urgency is defined according to candidate characteristics rather than the treatment modalities, and an interplay between urgency, donor‐recipient matching, and geographic sharing was introduced. In this article, [the authors] describe in detail the new allocation system and compare these allocation rules to Eurotransplant and US allocation policies."

Speakers:
Howard Eisen, MD • Pennsylvania State University, Hershey, PA

Moderator:
Ryan Davies, MD, FACS • UT Southwestern Medical Center/Children's Medical Center, Dallas, TX

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