PBS economics correspondent Paul Solman interviews non-directed kidney donors, and kidney exchange patients, and me, in yesterday's PBS newshour.
Here's a link to video of the 10 minute segment on kidneys, including a transcript.
How an economist’s idea to create kidney transplant chains has saved lives
and here's the video itself:
The show talks about how a single altruistic donor can initiate a long chain of kidney transplants that helps many people.
Here's the full hour-long newshour: kidneys are from about minute 34:46 to minute 44:38 on the video below.
Here's a link to video of the 10 minute segment on kidneys, including a transcript.
How an economist’s idea to create kidney transplant chains has saved lives
and here's the video itself:
The show talks about how a single altruistic donor can initiate a long chain of kidney transplants that helps many people.
The kidney exchange organization that started non-simultaneous non-directed donor chains is the Alliance for Paired Donation, run by Mike Rees, and I think that they still organize the longest chains, i.e. the ones with the highest average number of transplants.
The very first long chain was reported in this article in the New England Journal of Medicine:
Rees, Michael A., Jonathan E. Kopke, Ronald P. Pelletier, Dorry L. Segev, Matthew E. Rutter, Alfredo J. Fabrega, Jeffrey Rogers, Oleh G. Pankewycz, Janet Hiller, Alvin E. Roth, Tuomas Sandholm, Utku Ünver, and Robert A. Montgomery, “A Non-Simultaneous Extended Altruistic Donor Chain,” New England Journal of Medicine, 360;11, March 12, 2009
Here's the full hour-long newshour: kidneys are from about minute 34:46 to minute 44:38 on the video below.
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