Abstract
The UNOS is a not-for-profit, private, voluntary membership organization incorporated in the Commonwealth of Virginia, which qualifies as a tax exempt charity under IRC section 501(c)(3). Since 1986, it has been the sole holder of a contract from the federal government to operate the national OPTN. Its story is one of the many remarkable successes in organ transplantation.
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- AATB
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American Association of Tissue Banks
- AOPO
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Association of Organ Procurement Organizations
- CMS
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Center for Medicare and Medicaid Services; one branch of HHS
- CPRA
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calculated panel reactive antibody; measures a recipient’s preformed antibodies to donor antigens
- Crossmatch
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a histocompatibility test measuring the degree to which a recipient’s immune system reacts against a donor
- DCD
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donation after cardiac death
- DonorNet ®
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electronic donor information and organ offer system
- Donor swaps
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when two or more recipients exchange living donors because their original donors cannot donate to them because of incompatible blood type or positive crossmatch
- DOT
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Department of Transplantation
- DSA
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designated service area
- ECD
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expanded criteria donor
- FDA
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Federal Drug Administration
- HCFA
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Health Care Financing Administration; former name for CMS
- HHS
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Department of Health and Human Services
- HRSA
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Health Resources and Services Administration; one branch of HHS; home of the DOT
- IHI
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Institute for Healthcare Improvement
- KAS
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kidney allocation system
- LYFT
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life years from transplant
- MPSC
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Membership and Professional Standards Committee
- NEOB
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New England Organ Bank
- NOTA
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National Organ and Transplant Act of 1984
- OPO
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organ procurement organization
- OPTN
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Organ Procurement and Transplant Network
- Organ donation conversion rate
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number of actual donors as percent of eligible donors
- RRT
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renal replacement therapy
- SCD
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standard criteria donor
- Sensitized candidate
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has preformed anti-HLA antibodies (PRA) in the blood
- SEROPP
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South-Eastern Regional Organ Procurement Program
- SEOPF
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South-Eastern Organ Procurement Foundation
- SRTR
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Scientific Registry for Transplant Recipients
- SSA
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Social Security Act
- Transplant center
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usually a large hospital complex where multiple types of transplants done
- Transplant program
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usually part of a transplant center; focused on one organ
- Unet ®
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the electronic matching system
- UNOS
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United Network for Organ Sharing
- 0-ABDR MM
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zero mismatch; this refers to the situation when the donor has no allele which is different from the recipient even though the donor does not have all the alleles of the recipient
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Adams, P.L., Graham, W.K., Gunderson, S. (2010). Kidney Allocation: Role of UNOS and OPOs. In: McKay, D., Steinberg, S. (eds) Kidney Transplantation: A Guide to the Care of Kidney Transplant Recipients. Springer, Boston, MA. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4419-1690-7_5
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