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Unrelated Living Organ Donation: Ultra Needs To Go, Sujit Choudhry, Abdallah S. Daar
Unrelated Living Organ Donation: Ultra Needs To Go, Sujit Choudhry, Abdallah S. Daar
Sujit Choudhry
The recent review of the Unrelated Live Transplant Regulatory Authority (ULTRA) provides administrative and statistical information regarding living donor kidney transplantation in the United Kingdom. However, it leaves much unsaid. For example, although the report does mention the number of live kidney donations from unrelated donors that ULTRA has approved, it fails to mention that the United Kingdom has a low live kidney donation rate compared with other European countries (in 1999, 5.3 kidney donors per million population in the UK; 8.7 in Switzerland, 11.5 in Sweden, 24.6 in Norway). More importantly, the report does not address the fundamental question …