Kidney transplantation is a cost-saving treatment that extends the lives of patients with
ESRD. Unfortunately, the kidney transplant waiting list has ballooned to over 100,000 …

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 …

Abstract In 2013, the Organ Procurement and Transplantation Network in the United States
approved a new national deceased donor kidney allocation policy that introduces the kidney …

Importance Despite the acceptance of living-donor liver transplant (LDLT) as a lifesaving
procedure for end-stage liver disease, it remains underused in the United States …

After over a decade of discussion, analysis, and consensus-building, a new kidney
allocation system (KAS) was implemented on December 4, 2014. Key goals included …

From 5000 to 10 000 kidney patients die prematurely in the United States each year, and
about 100 000 more suffer the debilitating effects of dialysis, because of a shortage of …

We report a chain of 10 kidney transplantations, initiated in July 2007 by a single altruistic
donor (ie, a donor without a designated recipient) and coordinated over a period of 8 months …

Currently, patients awaiting deceased-donor liver transplantation are prioritized by medical
urgency. Specifically, wait-listed chronic liver failure patients are sequenced in decreasing …

We propose a scalable, data-driven method for designing national policies for the allocation
of deceased donor kidneys to patients on a waiting list in a fair and efficient way. We focus …

Pancreas allograft acceptance is markedly more selective than other solid organs. The
number of pancreata recovered is insufficient to meet the demand for pancreas transplants …