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To the Editor: In their Sounding Board article, Ubel and Caplan (Oct. 29 issue)¹ identified many important ethical issues with respect to organ allocation. Unfortunately, they included some factual errors and erroneous assumptions.

The adoption of a single national list for liver transplantation is not feasible. The statement that livers can be "stored for . . . 20 hours without serious damage" is scientifically incorrect. With every hour of storage, the rate of dysfunction of transplanted livers increases. Fortunately, virtually all programs have adopted a policy of prompt transplantation to avoid the loss of livers, reduce morbidity and mortality among . . . [Full Text of this Article]

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