Kidney paired donation and its potential impact on transplantation. Review uri icon

Overview

abstract

  • This article updates the unique opportunities available to kidney transplant candidates through kidney paired donation (KPD). KPD enables kidney transplant candidates with willing but incompatible living donors to enroll in a registry of other incompatible pairs to find a compatible transplant. Because of the ongoing shortage of deceased donor organs, KPD represents the most promising opportunity to increase the number of kidneys available for transplantation.

publication date

  • October 4, 2013

Research

keywords

  • Kidney Transplantation
  • Tissue Donors
  • Tissue and Organ Procurement

Identity

Scopus Document Identifier

  • 84887227539

Digital Object Identifier (DOI)

  • 10.1016/j.suc.2013.09.001

PubMed ID

  • 24206859

Additional Document Info

volume

  • 93

issue

  • 6