Global kidney exchange: Financially incompatible pairs are not transplantable compatible pairs

M A Rees; S R Paloyo; A E Roth; K D Krawiec; O Ekwenna; C L Marsh; A J Wenig; T B Dunn

doi:10.1111/ajt.14451

Global kidney exchange: Financially incompatible pairs are not transplantable compatible pairs

Am J Transplant. 2017 Oct;17(10):2743-2744. doi: 10.1111/ajt.14451. Epub 2017 Sep 1.

Authors

M A Rees¹, S R Paloyo², A E Roth³, K D Krawiec⁴, O Ekwenna¹, C L Marsh⁵, A J Wenig¹, T B Dunn⁶

Affiliations

¹ Department of Urology, University of Toledo, Toledo, OH, USA.
² Department of Surgery, Philippine General Hospital, University of the Philippines, Manila, Philippines.
³ Department of Economics, Stanford University, Stanford, CA, USA.
⁴ School of Law, Duke University, Durham, NC, USA.
⁵ Scripps Clinic, Scripps Center for Organ and Cell Transplant, La Jolla, CA, USA.
⁶ Department of Surgery, University of Minnesota, Minneapolis, MN, USA.

PMID: 28758331
DOI: 10.1111/ajt.14451

No abstract available

Keywords: donors and donation: incentives; donors and donation: paired exchange; economics; editorial/personal viewpoint; ethics; ethics and public policy; kidney transplantation/nephrology; law/legislation; organ allocation; organ procurement and allocation.

Publication types

Letter
Comment

MeSH terms

Humans
Kidney
Kidney Transplantation*
Living Donors
Tissue and Organ Procurement*