Impact of single centre kidney-exchange transplantation to increase living donor pool in India: A cohort study involving non-anonymous allocation

Nephrology, 2024

Authors: Vivek B. Kute, Himanshu V. Patel, Subho Banerjee, Divyesh P. Engineer, Ruchir B. Dave, Nauka Shah, Sanshriti Chauhan, Harishankar Meshram, Priyash Tambi, Akash Shah, Khushboo Saxena, Manish Balwani, Vishal Parmar, Shivam Shah, Ved Prakash, Sudeep Patel, Dev Patel, Sudeep Desai, Jamal Rizvi, Harsh Patel, Beena Parikh, Kamal Kanodia, Shruti Gandhi, Michael A. Rees, Alvin E. Roth, Pranjal Modi

Abstract: In India, 85% of organ donations are from living donors and 15% are from deceased donors. One-third of living donors were rejected because of ABO or HLA incompatibility. Kidney exchange transplantation (KET) is a cost-effective and legal strategy to increase living donor kidney transplantation (LDKT) by 25%–35%.

Read full article in Nephrology, Volume 29, Issue 12, December 2024.