Deirdre Sawinski, Jennifer C Lai, Sean Pinney, Alice L Gray, Annette M Jackson, Darren Stewart, Deborah Jo Levine, Jayme E Locke, James J Pomposelli, Matthew G Hartwig, Shelley A Hall, Darshana M Dadhania, Rebecca Cogswell, Richard V Perez, Jesse D Schold, Nicole A Turgeon, Jon Kobashigawa, Jasleen Kukreja, John C Magee, John Friedewald, John S Gill, Gabriel Loor, Julie K Heimbach, Elizabeth C Verna, Mary Norine Walsh, Norah Terrault, Guiliano Testa, Joshua M Diamond, Peter P Reese, Kimberly Brown, Susan Orloff, Maryjane A Farr, Kim M Olthoff, Mark Siegler, Nancy Ascher, Sandy Feng, Bruce Kaplan, Elizabeth Pomfret
Solid organ transplantation provides the best treatment for end-stage organ failure, but significant sex-based disparities in transplant access exist. On June 25, 2021, a virtual multidisciplinary conference was convened to address sex-based disparities in transplantation. Common themes contributing to sex-based disparities were noted across kidney, liver, heart, and lung transplantation, specifically the existence of barriers to referral and wait listing for women, the pitfalls of using serum creatinine, the issue of donor/recipient size mismatch, approaches to frailty and a higher prevalence of allosensitization among women...
March 2023: American Journal of Transplantation