Showing posts with label international kidney exchange. Show all posts
Showing posts with label international kidney exchange. Show all posts
Tuesday, November 11, 2025

Ethical considerations and global cooperaton in transplantation, Wednesday in Cairo

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It's Wednesday morning in Cairo, and here's today's conference  schedule , which will include discussion of (and voting on) glob...
Tuesday, August 26, 2025

"Better to exchange kidneys than bombs."

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 Some coffee cups  should naturally come in pairs, so that you have one for a friend in need. (These recently arrived in the mail, from Laur...
Sunday, May 18, 2025

Notes from Prague (kidney exchange, market design, and progress on a new book)

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I flew back to California yesterday, after spending some time in Czechia and Italy talking about kidney exchange.  Here is a video of the pu...
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...