Showing posts with label international kidney exchange. Show all posts
Showing posts with label international kidney exchange. Show all posts
Sunday, September 8, 2024

Simulating kidney exchange policies in Germany

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 Here are a set of simulations designed to help Germany establish a national (rather than a fragmented) kidney exchange system. Itai Ashlagi...
Wednesday, August 28, 2024

WHO Says Countries Should Be Self-Sufficient In (Unremunerated) Organs And Blood, by Krawiec and Roth

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 Requiring national self sufficiency in blood and plasma supplies is particularly hard on low and middle income countries, as is limiting th...
Wednesday, August 21, 2024

Kidney Exchange among Austria, Czech Republic, and Israel

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  Here's an article that includes description of the joint Austria, Czech Republic and Israel kidney exchanges. Böhmig, Georg A., Thomas...
Sunday, June 9, 2024

Recent kidney transplant papers

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 Here are two new papers on kidney exchange that caught my eye, and one on incentivizing deceased donation by prioritizing registered donors...
Monday, June 3, 2024

Kidney exchange between Israel and the Czech Republic

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 The Jerusalem Post reports another kidney exchange between Israel and the Czech Republic: Miraculous kidney donation between friends spans ...
Sunday, June 2, 2024

Kidney Exchange in Latin America and the Caribbean

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 Kidney exchange isn't yet thriving in Latin America, but the basic infrastructure is in place. It would make a lot of sense to jumpstar...
Tuesday, May 14, 2024

Simulating European kidney exchange, by Druzsin, Biró, Klimentova, and Fleiner

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There are a big variety of procedures used for kidney exchange in Europe.  Here are a set of simulations meant to explore their effects. Dru...
Tuesday, May 7, 2024

Kidney exchange in Italy, Europe and the U.S.: video of my talk in Rome

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  Here is a video recording of my talk in Rome yesterday at the   Istituto Superiore di Sanità.  There are some introductions by people wit...
Sunday, April 7, 2024

Call for kidney exchange in Jordan

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 Here's a paper by Jordanian transplant docs, pointing out that kidney exchange (and perhaps cross border kidney exchange) would be usef...
Tuesday, March 12, 2024

Kidney exchange between Portugal and Spain, and prospects for global kidney exchange

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 Here's an article from a Portuguese hospital that has engaged in kidney exchanges with Spanish hospitals that have resulted in three tr...
Saturday, December 2, 2023

Design of (international) kidney exchange: ex-post rejection versus ex-ante withholding

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 Here's a paper by several Dutch computer scientists, which seems to be motivated by the problem of international kidney exchange within...
Monday, November 20, 2023

Global kidney exchange between Denmark and U.S.

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 Here's a news story from North Carolina, home of one of the patient-donor pairs in the U.S.-Denmark kidney exchange, organized by the A...
Friday, November 10, 2023

Kidney Exchange: Within and Across Borders (video lecture).

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 Below is a video of my 40 minute talk at Berkeley on Monday, on Kidney Exchange: Within and Across Borders, at the final workshop on Mathem...
Tuesday, October 3, 2023

Transplant grand rounds in Manitoba, tomorrow on kidney exchange

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  I'll be talking tomorrow to the transplant pros in Manitoba, about kidney exchange and transplants across borders, among other things....
Friday, August 18, 2023

Kidney exchange between Portugal and Italy

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  Italy-Portugal cross transplants. that click that saved two "Thanks to a complex work of intervention planning and logistics, managed...
Wednesday, May 31, 2023

Kidney exchange progress in Europe

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 The program on European Cooperation in Science and Technology  (COST) has just published an update on steps being taken to advance kidney e...
Thursday, March 2, 2023

First kidney exchange between Cyprus and Israel

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  The Cyprus Mail has the story First exchange kidney transplant between Cyprus and Israel, By Jonathan Shkurko, March 1, 2023 "The fi...
Wednesday, January 11, 2023

Kidney Transplantation Across International Boundaries

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  When global kidney exchange was first proposed it met with some hysterical reactions, equating it to organ trafficking.  It is good to see...
Tuesday, September 13, 2022

The First 52 Global Kidney Exchange Transplants: today at TTS2022 in Buenos Aires

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 Tomorrow at TTS2022 in Buenos Aires, Mike Rees will present The First 52 Global Kidney Exchange Transplants: overcoming multiple barriers t...
Monday, September 12, 2022

Access to transplantation around the world, at the International Congress of The Transplantation Society (TTS 2022) in Buenos Aires

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I'm attending the 29th International Congress of The Transplantation Society ( TTS 2022) | Buenos Aires - Argentina, and will speak in ...