Chicago—As the waiting list continues to grow for people needing kidney transplantation, several novel efforts to increase the donor pool have emerged in recent years. Now researchers are trying to optimize these new approaches.
At the National Kidney Foundation Spring Clinical Meetings held here in April, several transplant experts suggested ways to improve allocation of "extended-criteria" kidneys and paired donation.
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Matched-pair donation gives patients needing a kidney transplant a greater chance at finding a compatible living-donor organ.
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Using extended criteria allows transplantation of kidneys from deceased donors whose organs are not considered optimal due to age, level of renal function, a history of hypertension, or death from stroke. Patients offered extended-criteria kidneys trade the increased risk of morbidity and mortality associated with dialysis for an allograft with increased risk of failure.
Paired donation occurs when an donor/recipient pair who are not immunocompatible can be matched with a . . . [Full Text of this Article]
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