Showing posts with label international kidney exchange. Show all posts
Showing posts with label international 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...
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 ...
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...
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...
Friday, October 22, 2021

Kidney failure is epidemic among agricultural workers in hot countries… so is likely to be exacerbated by global warming.

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  When I visited the UAE this past summer, I learned that it has high rates of kidney failure, attributed to the very high temperatures tha...
Wednesday, October 6, 2021

Indian Society of Organ Transplantation 2021 Annual Meeting, Oct 7-10

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 31st Annual Conference of The Indian Society of Organ Transplantation 7th to 10th October 2021 GRAND HYATT LULU BOLGATTY CONVENTION CENTER...
Monday, October 4, 2021

More on the UAE-Israel kidney exchange

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If you're just tuning in, you can follow the story  of the kidney exchange between the UAE and Israel  here . The pairs who exchanged ki...
Saturday, October 2, 2021

UAE as a natural hub for international/global kidney exchange

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  T here are excellent hospitals in the United Arab Emirates that can perform kidney transplants, and they are prepared to do kidney exchang...