A Nonsimultaneous, Extended, Altruistic-Donor Chain  

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Rees, Michael A. ; Kopke, Jonathan E. ; Pelletier, Ronald P. ; Segev, Dorry L. ; Rutter, Matthew E.

Jenis: Article from Journal - ilmiah internasional
Dalam koleksi: The New England Journal of Medicine (keterangan: ada di Proquest) vol. 360 no. 11 (Mar. 2009), page 1096.

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Perpustakaan FK Nomor Panggil: N08.K.2009.02 Non-tandon: 1 (dapat dipinjam: 0) Tandon: tidak ada

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We report a chain of 10 kidney transplantations, initiated in July 2007 by a single altruistic donor (i.e., a donor without a designated recipient) and coordinated over a period of 8 months by two large paired-donation registries. These transplantations involved six transplantation centers in five states. In the case of five of the transplantations, the donors and their coregistered recipients underwent surgery simultaneously. In the other five cases, "bridge donors" continued the chain as many as 5 months after the coregistered recipients in their own pairs had received transplants. This report of a chain of paired kidney donations, in which the transplantations were not necessarily performed simultaneously, illustrates the potential of this strategy. ...

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