Recent articles on kidney exchange

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Kidney paired donation: principles, protocols and programs

1. Paolo Ferrari1,2,3,*, 
2. Willem Weimar4,5, 
3. Rachel J. Johnson6, 
4. Wai H. Lim2,7and 
5. Kathryn J. Tinckam8,9
6. 1. Nephrol. Dial. Transplant.(2014)doi: 10.1093/ndt/gfu309First published online:October 7, 2014

-Author Affiliations

1. ¹Department of Nephrology, Fremantle Hospital, Fremantle, WA, Australia
2. ²School of Medicine and Pharmacology, University of Western Australia, Perth, Australia
3. ³Organ and Tissue Authority, Canberra, ACT, Australia
4. ⁴Department of Internal Medicine and Transplantation, Erasmus MC, University Medical Center, Rotterdam, The Netherlands
5. ⁵Dutch Transplant Foundation, Leiden, The Netherlands
6. ⁶NHS Blood and Transplant, NHS, Bristol, UK
7. ⁷Department of Nephrology, Sir Charles Gairdner Hospital, Perth, Australia
8. ⁸Division of Nephrology, Department of Medicine and HLA Laboratory, Laboratory Medicine Program, University Health Network, Toronto, ON, Canada
9. ⁹Canadian Blood Services, Organ Donation and Transplantation,Toronto, ON, Canada

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Kidney exchange: Further utilization of donors via listed exchange

• Özgür Yılmaz^, 

College of Administrative Science and Economics, Koç University, Sarıyer, İstanbul, 34450, Turkey

Journal of Mathematical Economics

Volume 51, March 2014, Pages 178–186

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Abstract

There is a set of incompatible patient–donor pairs and these pairs are matched pairwise. A match between two pairs corresponds to a paired kidney donation, where pairs exchange donated kidneys, or a paired listed exchange, where the first donor donates a kidney to the deceased donor wait-list, the first patient receives the kidney of the second donor, and the second patient receives a priority on the wait-list. We characterize the set of exchanges with the maximum number of transplants from the set of pairs. This characterization generalizes the well-known Gallai–Edmonds Decomposition Theorem.