Kidney Transplant Criteria
Kidney and Pancreas Transplant Eligibility
- UAB Medicine prefers to begin evaluation for patients who have a glomerular filtration rate < 30 ml/minute or already on dialysis.
- For Simultaneous Pancreas and Kidney transplant, type 1 DM and type 2 DM with BMI <30 are considered.
UAB Special Programs
- ABO Incompatible transplant
- Kidney Paired Donation
- HIV + transplant, including HIV + deceased donors to HIV + recipients (HOPE Act)
- HCV+ donors to HCV- recipients