Extending the Possibilities of Kidney Exchange with Compatible Pairs
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2011-04-20
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Kidney exchange enables incompatible pairs to exchange kidneys so each recipient can receive a transplant. Compatible pairs have not yet been incorporated in any kidney exchange program. The present study incorporates compatible pairs in cycles-only mechanism, and focuses on the HLA match aspect of match quality. When 27.7% of compatible pairs participate, between 50-67% more incompatible pairs can be matched than would be in a pool of only incompatible pairs (at the national level, 1000-1330 more transplants per year), and com- patible pairs see an average improvement in match quality of 2/3 of one HLA match.
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Mital, Karna (2011). Extending the Possibilities of Kidney Exchange with Compatible Pairs. Honors thesis, Duke University. Retrieved from https://hdl.handle.net/10161/3567.
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