US Transplant System May Undergo New Rules for Sharing of Adult Hearts

January 29, 2016

(Medical Xpress) – The nation’s transplant system is proposing wider geographic sharing of adult hearts and a new way of ranking prospective recipients on waiting lists so organs more often get to the sickest patients. The proposal, open for public comment, bears similarities to recommendations made in 2014 for changing how livers are allocated. Those recommendations, still up in the air, have drawn opposition from medical centers opposed to sharing livers across bigger swaths of the country.