Getting an organ transplant requires a number of factors to be aligned, Elizabeth Tracey reports

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When it comes to organ transplantation one size does not fit all. A multitude of factors determine whether a given organ is right for a certain recipient, with at least one disgruntled family member challenging the system in Congress and elsewhere. Adam Schiavi, a neuro critical care expert at Johns Hopkins, says in the short term organ pairing systems will likely stay in place.

Schiavi: I feel like until the system is dismantled the pairing and the matching system would probably stay about the same for a while because there's not a viable alternative at the moment. There's tons of people donating organs and they have to go to the proper people. It's not always the ones who need them the most. That's what we want to believe, the person at the top of the list gets the first organ available. It doesn't work that way. That would be ideal, we want that to happen but the person over on the other side on the donation side their organs may not be a match, they may not fit.   :32

At Johns Hopkins, I’m Elizabeth Tracey.