A novel method to increase the kidney donor pool: A fusion model linking the deceased donor waitlist to a paired kidney exchange program

Aim: To merge the deceased donor (DD) and the paired kidney exchange (PKE) allocation processes, creating a fusion model. Materials and Methods: One of the DD kidneys are allocated to the first patient on the DD wait-list and the other kidney is allocated to the PKE registry to initiate a chain of s...

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Main Authors: Viswanath Billa, Utkarsh Verma, Deepa Usulumarty, Narayan Rangaraj, Ganesh Sanap, Jatin Kothari, Rajesh Kumar, Shrirang Bichu
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Wolters Kluwer Medknow Publications 2018-01-01
Series:Indian Journal of Transplantation
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Online Access:http://www.ijtonline.in/article.asp?issn=2212-0017;year=2018;volume=12;issue=3;spage=187;epage=192;aulast=Billa