The first successful living-donor kidney transplant was performed 50 yr ago. Since then, in a
relatively brief period of medical history, living kidney transplantation has become the …

Solid organ transplantation is one of the most remarkable and dramatic therapeutic
advances in medicine during the past 60 years. This field has progressed initially from what …

Abstract The 2017 Kidney Disease: Improving Global Outcomes (KDIGO) Clinical Practice
Guideline on the Evaluation and Care of Living Kidney Donors is intended to assist medical …

Most transplanted kidneys are from cadavers, but there are also many transplants from live
donors. Recently, there have started to be kidney exchanges involving two donor-patient …

Background and objectives: Kidney transplantation is the most desired and cost-effective
modality of renal replacement therapy for patients with irreversible chronic kidney failure …

The literature on exchange of indivisible goods finds natural application in the exchange of
live donor kidneys for transplant. However, in kidney exchange, there are constraints on the …

There have been two recent trends in living kidney donation: increased acceptance of living
donors and increased acceptance of laparoscopic nephrectomy (LN). We surveyed 234 …

Objective: The objective of this study was to characterize the patient population with respect
to patient selection, assess surgical morbidity and graft failures, and analyze the contribution …

The number of patients needing liver transplantation greatly exceeds the number of organs
that can be obtained from cadavers. Living-donor liver transplantation has therefore …

We study how barter exchanges should be conducted through a centralized mechanism in a
dynamically evolving agent pool with time-and compatibility-based preferences. We derive …