Can the principle of LYFT help objectively in timing renal transplantation therapy for the CKD patients?

Death with a functioning kidney is a well recognized cause for the loss of nearly half of the transplanted kidneys. This has recently stimulated UNOS to consider the estimation of the expected life years from transplant (LYFT) upon allocating kidneys from diseased donors. Patients with high LYFT values are expected to have priority especially toward receiving grafts with better quality. LYFT value expre­sses the increased life span (in years) because of receiving a kidney transplant from a par­ticular donor.