Global kidney chains.

ABSTRACT: Kidney failure is a worldwide scourge, made more lethal by the shortage of transplants. We propose a way to organize kidney exchange chains internationally between middle-income countries with financial barriers to transplantation and high-income countries with many hard to match patients and patient-donor pairs facing lengthy dialysis. The proposal involves chains of exchange that begin in the middle-income country and end in the high-income country. We also propose a way of financing such chains using savings to US health care payers.

SUBMITTER: Nikzad A 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC8433556 | biostudies-literature | 2021 Sep

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature