The United Network for Organ Sharing, a group that decides which patients receive life-saving organ transplants in the US, has reinstated a policy that gives transplant centers first dibs on donated livers in their communities.
. Patients in New York filed a lawsuit claiming UNOS's policy left them waiting longer for the liver donations they desperately needed, while people with less-severe diseases were receiving livers in other parts of the country.
"In fact what happens is, more people die," said Dr. Seth Karp, director of the transplant center at the Vanderbilt University Medical Center in Nashville, Tennessee. Karp explained that traveling farther for a liver can lead to poor outcomes. He says his transplant team aims to get a liver within six to 10 hours, and every additional hour on top of that starts to compromise the quality of the liver.
But last week, a federal court judge ordered that the policy be halted, and the group said it would reinstate the original distribution policy.stating that liver transplants would continue uninterrupted:"UNOS wants to reassure the donation and transplant community that despite the legal proceedings underway, donated livers continue to be allocated to patients on the waiting list; there is no disruption to this important work.
Meanwhile, thousands of people in need of a new liver continue to wait. Tamsin Skeels, 48, of Charlotte, North Carolina, is one of them., is on the list to receive a liver at the Duke Transplant Center, just a two and a half hour drive away. She was an alternate once for a donated liver, but did not receive it.
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