Kidney Paired Donation: A Single Center Approach to Increase Living Donor Transplantation.

Bingaman A, Kapturczak M, Murphey C, Wright F.

Clinical Transplants 2010, Chapter 32

Abstract

Methodist Specialty and Transplant Hospital has performed a total of 125 KPD transplants from the onset of the program in Dec. 2007. With the addition of the KPD program, live donor transplants have increased annually by 35% demonstrating the ability to substantially increase access to transplantation utilizing this modality. Furthermore, KPD combined with selective desensitization has provided a means for individualized assessment and management of the highly sensitized patient.