A New Paired-Exchange Program Can Help Kidney Patients Who Have a Willing, Living – but Incompatible – Donor

clipped from www.kidney.org Patients on the kidney transplant waiting list with potential living donors who are immunologically incompatible now have another option besides continuing to search for another donor. Ajay Israni, Assistant Professor of Medicine, Adjunct Assistant Professor of Epidemiology & Community Health at the University of Minnesota, presented details of a revolutionary new system that he helped start that exchanges pair donor information between nine different transplant centers in the U.S. Midwest at the NKF’s 2008 Spring Clinical Meetings in Dallas last week.

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