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SUBMITTER: Fumo DE
PROVIDER: S-EPMC5551043 | biostudies-literature | 2015 Oct
REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature
Fumo D E DE Kapoor V V Reece L J LJ Stepkowski S M SM Kopke J E JE Rees S E SE Smith C C Roth A E AE Leichtman A B AB Rees M A MA
American journal of transplantation : official journal of the American Society of Transplantation and the American Society of Transplant Surgeons 20150526 10
Failure to convert computer-identified possible kidney paired donation (KPD) exchanges into transplants has prohibited KPD from reaching its full potential. This study analyzes the progress of exchanges in moving from "offers" to completed transplants. Offers were divided into individual segments called 1-way transplants in order to calculate success rates. From 2007 to 2014, the Alliance for Paired Donation performed 243 transplants, 31 in collaboration with other KPD registries and 194 indepen ...[more]