Incompatibility between the candidate recipient and the prospective donor is a major
obstacle to living donor kidney transplant. Kidney paired donation (KPD) can circumvent the …

Kidney paired donation (KPD) was first suggested in 1986, but it was not until 2000 when
the first paired donation transplant was performed in the USA. In the past decade, KPD has …

Since 2008, kidney exchange in America has grown in part from the incorporation of
nondirected donors in transplant chains rather than simple exchanges. It is controversial …

Many patients in need of a kidney transplant have a willing but incompatible (or poorly
matched) living donor. Kidney exchange programs arrange exchanges among such patient …

Background The waiting list for kidney transplantation is long. The creation of “vouchers” for
future kidney transplants enables living donation to occur when optimal for the donor and …

Concerns regarding the potential for broken chains and “reneges” within kidney paired
donation (KPD) and its effect on chain length have been raised previously. Although these …

Many deceased-donor and living-donor kidney transplants (KTs) rely on commercial airlines
for transport. However, the coronavirus-19 pandemic has drastically impacted the …

With many multicenter consortia and a United Network for Organ Sharing program,
participation in kidney paired donation (KPD) has become mainstream in the United States …

Living donor kidney transplantation is the preferred treatment for patients suffering from end‐
stage renal disease. To alleviate the shortage of kidney donors, many advances have been …

Incompatible donor/recipient pairs with broadly sensitized recipients have difficulty finding a
crossmatch-compatible match, despite a large kidney paired donation pool. One approach …