Showing posts with label global kidney exchange. Show all posts
Showing posts with label global kidney exchange. Show all posts
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...
Monday, March 11, 2024

Global disparities in kidney disease and care

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  Here's a report on the availability of treatment of kidney disease around the world.  If you are unlucky enough to have kidney failure...
Wednesday, February 28, 2024

Global pacemaker retransplantation

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  There are innovative approaches to global health care.  Here is one, that involves reusing pacemakers recovered from deceased donors and r...
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...
Monday, September 18, 2023

Kidney Paired Donation in Developing Countries: a Global Perspective

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 Vivek Kute and his colleagues argue that one of the lessons from the developing world is that kidney exchange can save many lives, but may ...
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...
Wednesday, October 26, 2022

Kidney exchange collaboration between Stanford and APKD

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 I recently had occasion to review the long collaboration between  my Stanford colleagues and  Mike Rees and the Alliance for Paired Kidney ...
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 ...
Saturday, September 10, 2022

Kidney exchange launched between the U.S. and Italy

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  Here's the announcement from Italy (in Italian), on the site of the Centro Nazionale Trapianti, the National Transplant Center:  Al vi...
Thursday, September 8, 2022

Three living kidney donors talk about their experience

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 Tonight at 6pm Eastern, three donor stories from the National Kidney Donation Organization ( NKDO ) Click Here to Register
Tuesday, August 23, 2022

Living Kidney Donor Transplantation and Global Kidney Exchange by Marino, Roth and Rees

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  Here's a just-published article explaining global kidney exchange,  in Experimental and Clinical Transplantation (ECT), the journal o...