Alliance for Paired Donation – Saving
Lives through Kidney Paired Donation
More than 88,000 people in
America are waiting for a kidney transplant; sadly,
about 12 of these patients die every day because
there aren’t enough donors. Many kidney patients
have someone who is willing to donate, but because
of immune system or blood type incompatibilities,
they are not able to give a kidney to their loved
one.
The Alliance for Paired Donation
can help. Kidney paired donation matches one incompatible
donor/recipient pair to another pair in the same
situation, so that the donor of the first pair gives
to the recipient of the second, and vice versa. In
other words, the two pairs swap kidneys . APD has
also pioneered a new way of using altruistic, or
good Samaritan, donors, so that the transplants no
longer have to be performed simultaneously. Non-simultaneous
Extended Altruistic Donor Chains (NEAD Chains ) allow
donors to “pay it forward” after their
loved one receives a transplant.
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