A Nonsimultaneous, Extended, Altruistic-Donor Chain

Michael Kenneth Rees, Jonathan E. Kopke, Ronald P. Pelletier, Dorry L. Segev, Matthew E. Rutter, Alfredo J. Fabrega, Jeffrey David Rogers, Oleh G. Pankewycz, Janet Hiller, Alvin Roth, Tuomas Sandholm, M. Utku Ãœnver and Robert Armstrong Montgomery
Authors registered in the RePEc Author Service: M. Utku Ünver

Scholarly Articles from Harvard University Department of Economics

Abstract: 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.

Date: 2009
References: View complete reference list from CitEc
Citations: View citations in EconPapers (18)

Published in New England Journal of Medicine

Downloads: (external link)
http://dash.harvard.edu/bitstream/handle/1/2940829 ... al%20NEJM%202009.pdf (application/pdf)

Related works:
This item may be available elsewhere in EconPapers: Search for items with the same title.

Export reference: BibTeX RIS (EndNote, ProCite, RefMan) HTML/Text

Persistent link: https://EconPapers.repec.org/RePEc:hrv:faseco:29408291

Access Statistics for this paper

More papers in Scholarly Articles from Harvard University Department of Economics Contact information at EDIRC.
Bibliographic data for series maintained by Office for Scholarly Communication ().