The US Kidney Allocation System allocates en bloc deceased donor kidney grafts from donors <18 kg in sequence A along with single kidney transplants (SKTs) from kidney donor profile index (KDPI) top 20% donors. Although en bloc grafts outperform SKT grafts holding donor weight constant, it is unclear if en bloc grafts from the smallest pediatric donors perform the same as top 20% KDPI SKTs.
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