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2. Kidney paired donation - Wikipedia

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   Kidney paired donation (KPD), or paired exchange, is an approach to living donor kidney transplantation where patients with incompatible donors swap kidneys to receive a compatible kidney. KPD is used in situations where a potential donor is incompatible.

3. National Kidney Registry - Wikipedia

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   Remote donation utilizes proven logistics systems pioneered in kidney swaps by the National Kidney Registry over the past decade to safely transport the kidney from the donor's local hospital to the transplant center in the distant city. Research has proven that shipping a live kidney for transplant has no significant impact on patient outcomes.

4. Optimal kidney exchange - Wikipedia

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   Optimal kidney exchange (OKE) is an optimization problem faced by programs for kidney paired donations (also called Kidney Exchange Programs). Such programs have large databases of patient-donor pairs, where the donor is willing to donate a kidney in order to help the patient, but cannot do so due to medical incompatibility.

5. 'Someone I love needs a kidney.' The story behind the car ...

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   There are 613 people on the waiting list for organ donations in Iowa, said Heather Butterfield, director of strategic communications of the Iowa Donor Network. Out of the 613 people on that list ...

6. How safe is it to donate a kidney? New research has ... - AOL

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   Fortunately, long-term data from organ donors has shown that their kidney function tends to remain stable and the risk of developing chronic kidney disease is only slightly higher than in those ...

7. How kidney donation helped Mohegan Lake toddler get her ... - AOL

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   In 2023, 188 of the 27,300 kidney transplants done in the U.S. were on patients under age 5; zero were done on babies under 1 year old. How kidney donation helped Mohegan Lake toddler get her ...