Showing posts with label deceased donor chains. Show all posts
Showing posts with label deceased donor chains. Show all posts
Thursday, April 10, 2025

Kidneys and Controversies at Mt. Sinai hospital

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 I gave a talk yesterday at Mt. Sinai hospital. They had encouraged me to talk about controversies, which I happily did.  They were a sympat...
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...
Tuesday, February 27, 2024

Stanford Impact Labs announces support for kidney exchange in Brazil, India, and the U.S.

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  Stanford Impact Labs has announced an investment designed to help the Alliance for Paired Kidney Donation (APKD) i ncrease access to kidne...
Thursday, February 22, 2024

Directed deceased donation of organs for transplant. (Legal in U.S. but not yet in Europe.)

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 It is legal in the U.S. for a deceased donor organ for transplant to be directed to a particular recipient, if the recipient is compatible ...
Saturday, October 15, 2022

Kidney exchange in The Times of India

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  The Times of India covers my talk at the Indian Society of Transplantation meeting: Alvin Roth for legal boost to kidney exchange pool in ...
Thursday, October 13, 2022

The Dr H.L. Trivedi Oration at the Indian Society of Transplantation (ISOT) Meeting 2022

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Here's the meeting announcement: ISOT 2022 NAGPUR 32 nd  Annual Conference of The Indian Society of Organ Transplantation 2 nd  Mid-term...
Saturday, July 9, 2022

Prospects for improving kidney exchange in France

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A recent article in  Néphrologie & Thérapeutique simulates h ow kidney exchange in France could possibly be made substantially more effe...
Sunday, April 3, 2022

Kidney Paired Donation Chains Initiated by Deceased Donors

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  Starting kidney exchange chains with a deceased donor is a good idea whose time is coming.   Wen Wang, Alan B. Leichtman, Michael A. Rees,...
Monday, November 22, 2021

A naturally occurring deceased-donor-initiated kidney exchange chain, by Maghen and Veale

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  Here's an interesting case report, from the innovative UCLA transplant center, about a kidney exchange chain actually, if not official...
Sunday, August 23, 2020

More on Deceased donors as non‐directed donors in kidney exchange chains

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I anticipate that we  will be reading more in the future about kidney exchange chains started by a deceased donor kidney.  In the meantime, ...
Tuesday, August 7, 2018

Deceased donor chains: Market design language is entering transplantation

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Here's some more argument in favor of starting kidney chains with deceased donors , from the journal Clinical Transplantation Volume ...
Monday, April 11, 2016

Using deceased donor kidneys to start living donor kidney exchange chains

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In American kidney exchange, living non-directed kidney donors initiate chains that produce an average of five transplants.Deceased donor k...