Ontology highlight
ABSTRACT:
SUBMITTER: Anderson R
PROVIDER: S-EPMC4311855 | biostudies-other | 2015 Jan
REPOSITORIES: biostudies-other
Anderson Ross R Ashlagi Itai I Gamarnik David D Roth Alvin E AE
Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America 20150105 3
As of May 2014 there were more than 100,000 patients on the waiting list for a kidney transplant from a deceased donor. Although the preferred treatment is a kidney transplant, every year there are fewer donors than new patients, so the wait for a transplant continues to grow. To address this shortage, kidney paired donation (KPD) programs allow patients with living but biologically incompatible donors to exchange donors through cycles or chains initiated by altruistic (nondirected) donors, ther ...[more]