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Area of Science:

  • Transplant surgery
  • Organ allocation
  • Public health

Background:

  • Deceased donor liver allocation traditionally uses a ranked match-run system.
  • Organ procurement organizations (OPOs) can deviate using out-of-sequence (OOS) matches.

Purpose of the Study:

  • To evaluate the impact of OOS matches on organ utilization.
  • To identify factors influencing the decision to use OOS matches.

Main Methods:

  • Analysis of eligible deceased donors from the Scientific Registry of Transplant Recipients (SRTR) data (2013-2023).
  • Utilized hierarchical mixed-effects models to assess OOS practices versus organ utilization.
  • Controlled for liver graft risk using the Discard Risk Index (DSRI), blood type, and year.

Main Results:

  • Out-of-sequence (OOS) offers increased annually but did not correlate with overall increased organ utilization.
  • Increasing graft risk was associated with reduced utilization for deceased donor (DBD) and donation after cardiac death (DCD) grafts.
  • OOS allocation improved utilization for DCD grafts across all risk levels and for high-risk DBD grafts.

Conclusions:

  • Out-of-sequence (OOS) allocation demonstrates potential to improve utilization of high-risk grafts.
  • Current OOS practices are not optimally aligned with graft risk, suggesting a need for refinement in application.