A Nonsimultaneous, Extended, Altruistic-Donor Chain | Zendy

Michael Rees | Zendy; Jonathan E. Kopke | Zendy; Ronald P. Pelletier | Zendy; Dorry L. Segev | Zendy; Matthew E. Rutter | Zendy; Alfredo J. Fabrega | Zendy; Jeffrey Rogers | Zendy; O. Pankewycz | Zendy; Janet Hiller | Zendy; Alvin E. Roth | Zendy; Tüomas Sandholm | Zendy; M. Utku Ünver | Zendy; Robert A. Montgomery | Zendy

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A Nonsimultaneous, Extended, Altruistic-Donor Chain

Author(s) -

Michael Rees,

Jonathan E. Kopke,

Ronald P. Pelletier,

Dorry L. Segev,

Matthew E. Rutter,

Alfredo J. Fabrega,

Jeffrey Rogers,

O. Pankewycz,

Janet Hiller,

Alvin E. Roth,

Tüomas Sandholm,

M. Utku Ünver,

Robert A. Montgomery

Publication year - 2009

Publication title -

new england journal of medicine

Language(s) - English

Resource type - Journals

SCImago Journal Rank - 19.889

H-Index - 1030

eISSN - 1533-4406

pISSN - 0028-4793

DOI - 10.1056/nejmoa0803645

Subject(s) - medicine , donation , surgery , transplantation , kidney transplantation , kidney , economics , economic growth

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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