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Paired and altruistic kidney donation in the UK: algorithms and experimentation [PDF]

, 2012
We study the computational problem of identifying optimal sets of kidney exchanges in the UK. We show how to expand an integer programming-based formulation [1, 19] in order to model the criteria that constitute the UK definition of optimality.
David F. Manlove, O’Malley, G., Gregg O’Malley, Manlove, D.F.   +3 more
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Perspectives of Older Kidney Transplant Recipients on Kidney Transplantation [PDF]

Clinical Journal of the American Society of Nephrology, 2017
Background and objectives Older kidney transplant recipients are susceptible to cognitive impairment, frailty, comorbidities, immunosuppression-related complications, and chronic graft failure, however, there has been limited focus on their concerns and expectations related to transplantation.
Jule, Pinter, Camilla S, Hanson, Jeremy R, Chapman, Germaine, Wong, Jonathan C, Craig, Jane O, Schell, Allison, Tong   +6 more
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Sociodemographic factors and patient perceptions are associated with attitudes to kidney transplantation among haemodialysis patients

, 2008
Background. Treatment decisions made by patients with chronic kidney disease are crucial in the renal transplantation process. These decisions are influenced, amongst other factors, by attitudes towards different treatment options, which are modulated by
Marton, Adrienn, Novák, Márta, Zambo, Monika, Kovacs, Agnes, Réthelyi, János, Németh, Zsófia, Molnár, Miklós Zsolt, Csepanyi, Gabor, Vamos, Eszter Panna, Mucsi, István   +9 more
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Extended pancreas donor program - the EXPAND study rationale and study protocol [PDF]

, 2013
BACKGROUND: Simultaneous pancreas kidney transplantation (SPK), pancreas transplantation alone (PTA) or pancreas transplantation after kidney (PAK) are the only curative treatment options for patients with type 1 (juvenile) diabetes mellitus with or ...
Bechstein, Wolf Otto, Carsten Dietz, Falk Rauchfuss, Holub, Ines, Peter Schenker, Heise, Michael, Volker Müller, Rauchfuss, Falk, Proneth, Andrea, Florian Zeman, Björn Nashan, Markus Guba, Banas, Bernhard, Stefan Thorban, Schemmer, Peter, Edward K Geissler, Stephan Kersting, Ströhlein, Michael A., Andreas A Schnitzbauer, Nashan, Björn, Jonas, Sven, Thomas Becker, Ines Holub, Johanna R Foerster, Andreas Pascher, Manekeller, Steffen, Viebahn, Richard, Müller, Volker, Thomas Vogel, Peter Schemmer, Bernhard Banas, Farkas, Stefan A., Andrea Proneth, Arbogast, Helmut, Schenker, Peter, Richard Viebahn, Thorban, Stefan, Jürgen Klempnauer, Silvio Nadalin, Axel O Rahmel, Vogel, Thomas, Becker, Thomas, Guba, Markus, Zeman, Florian, Kersting, Stephan, Michael Heise, Rahmel, Axel, Klempnauer, Jürgen, Schlitt, Hans J., Schnitzbauer, Andreas, Stefan A Farkas, Nadalin, Silvio, Sven Jonas, Steffen Manekeller, Helmut Arbogast, Hans J Schlitt, Dietz, Carsten, Michael A Ströhlein, Geissler, Edward K., Wolf O Bechstein, Foerster, Johanna R., Pascher, Andreas, Andrea Proneth   +62 more
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Excellent clinical outcomes of renal transplant from pediatric deceased donors with acute kidney injury

European Journal of Medical Research, 2023
Background The use of kidneys from deceased donors with acute kidney injury (AKI) to expand the donor pool is an ongoing trend. Prior research on the utilization of AKI donor kidneys, especially from pediatric AKI donors, was limited and has been subject
Qiuhao Liu, Hedong Zhang, Mingda Zhong, Liang Tan, Shanbiao Hu, Longkai Peng, Xubiao Xie, Gongbin Lan   +7 more
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Racial disparities in preemptive waitlisting and deceased donor kidney transplantation: Ethics and solutions

American Journal of Transplantation, 2020
Kidney transplantation prior to dialysis, known as “preemptive transplant,” enables patients to live longer and avoid the substantial quality of life burdens due to chronic dialysis.
P. Reese, S. Mohan, Kristen L. King, W. Williams, Vishnu S. Potluri, M. Harhay, N. Eneanya   +6 more
semanticscholar   +1 more source

Functions of a Transplanted Kidney [PDF]

Science, 1905
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Carrel, A., Guthrie, C. C.
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The first robotic kidney transplantation in Korea: a case report [PDF]

, 2022
Minimally invasive surgery reduces perioperative pain and morbidity, facilitating rapid recovery. However, the field of kidney transplantation has lagged in this regard, its customary open surgical techniques going nearly unchanged until recently ...
이주한, 김현정, 한웅규, 나준채, 허규하   +4 more
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Maximum weight cycle packing in directed graphs, with application to kidney exchange programs [PDF]

, 2009
Centralized matching programs have been established in several countries to organize kidney exchanges between incompatible patient-donor pairs. At the heart of these programs are algorithms to solve kidney exchange problems, which can be modelled as ...
Biro, P., Rizzi, R., Manlove, D.F.
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Mechanisms of calcineurin inhibitor nephrotoxicity in chronic allograft injury

, 2012
The first successful transplantation of a human kidney was performed more than 50 years ago by Murray and colleagues in 1954 between identical twins. The success of this transplantation was due to the fact that no significant rejection occurs between ...
Ryan, Michael P., Johnston, Olwyn, Hilary Cassidy, Michael P. Ryan, Slattery, Craig, Tara McMorrow, Cassidy, Hilary, Craig Slattery, Olwyn Johnston, Michael P., McMorrow, Tara   +10 more
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