Services
External Proficiency Testing
One major aspect of the External Proficiency Testing (EPT) and Assurance in Eurotransplant is the continuous flow of information to the participants. All results and information are reported back to the participants. The results are summarised in the Annual Report of Eurotransplant, and at the Annual Tissue Typers Meeting in Autumn in Leiden, the Netherlands. The schemes can differ from participant to participant depending on its services providied to the affiliated transplantation center.EPT schemes:
- HLA typing
- DNA typing
- Crossmatching
- Screening for HLA specific antibodies
- EPT Results
- EPT Forms
Highly sensitized patients:
Recommendations:
Eurotransplant Manual Chapter 10: Histocompatibility:
(matching determinants 2009)
Selected computer programs:
- Virtual PRA calculation
- Donor Frequences
- Waiting time prediction (under reconstruction)
- HLA Matchmaker (under reconstruction)