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News and Articles
 Three-Way Kidney Swap Helps A Local Woman
08/07/2008
digtriad.com
Winston-Salem -- After spending years on dialysis, Robin Graves of Winston-Salem was excited when an old friend offered to donate a kidney.
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Selflessness, to the third power
07/29/2008
The Denver Post
3 kidney transplants to occur simultaneously across countryWith clocks synchronized, three kidney transplants will happen simultaneously at three hospitals in three time zones around the country this morning.
At 7:30 a.m. Denver time, the three-state kidney exchange will begin with patients in North Carolina, in Alabama and at the University of Colorado Hospital in Aurora.
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Arvada woman gets kidney through sharing program
July 29, 2008
Rocky Mountain News
They live in four different states and met only recently. Yet they are bound by a common experience.
On Wednesday, three of them will donate kidneys and three will receive them.
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Kidney donor starts chain that reaches 13 people
July 2, 2008
Petosky News-Review
When Matt Jones, 29, of Petoskey donated his kidney to a woman he didn’t know in Phoenix, Ariz. on July 18, 2007, he started an altruistic donation chain which is about to reach 13 people.
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Kidney swap brings Brevard woman hope
December 8, 2007
Orlando Sentinel
Ethel Devine wanted to give her ailing mother a kidney.But the two are not compatible, so Devine did the next-best thing. She promised to donate her organ to a stranger, provided her mother got a kidney in return.
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Kidney Swaps Seen as Way To Ease Donor Shortage
October 15, 2007
The Wall Street Journal
There are nearly 75,000 patients in the U.S. awaiting kidney transplants. To move more people off the wait list, surgeons are trying to expand a complex new practice, kidney-swapping, that has helped a small but growing number of people like Robyn Brandon.
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OSU links long chain of kidney donations
Sunday, September 16, 2007
The Columbus Deispatch
Recipients' kin give organs to strangers in domino effect.
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Toledoan to 'pay off' daughter's new kidney
Thursday, September 13, 2007
Exactly seven weeks after her daughter underwent a kidney transplant, Laurie Sarvo today is scheduled to give a kidney to another person in need - and start the nation's second chain of donations involving those who cannot help their own loved ones.
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Paying it forward proves lifesaver
The Arizona Republic
Friday, July 27, 2007
PHOENIX — On Thursday in Toledo, Ohio, Ron Bunnell will have a kidney removed, and moments later it will be placed inside Angela Heckman, a woman he barely knows.
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Gift of kidney begins string of organ donations by John Faherty
The Arizona Republic
Jul. 22, 2007 AMA chain of small miracles started in Phoenix last week. It began when a Michigan man decided to donate one of his kidneys to a person he had never met.
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Aiming to increase transplants
Monday, June 18, 2007
The Methodist Dallas Transplant Institute has joined the Southwest Alliance for Paired Donation to help increase the number of organs available for transplant, said Methodist spokeswoman Lynette Wilkinson.
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The Thinkers: CMU prof using game theory to match kidneys
Pittsburgh Post Gazette - Pittsburgh,PA,USA Monday, May 07, 2007. So far, it has been used for one two-transplant chain in New Jersey, said the alliance's medical director, Dr. Michael Rees.
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Paired donations give organ transplants a brighter future.
Wednesday, May 09, 2007
Pittsburgh Post-Gazette
When Lora Wilson of Churchill decided to donate one of her kidneys last year to anyone who needed it, she got an unexpected reaction.
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Program helps find match for kidneys
Rate of transplants could rise sharply
A new method of finding matches for kidney transplant candidates may result in thousands more transplants annually, saving some of the 4,000 people who die each year awaiting transplants.
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Camellias to help with cause
The family of a Greensboro woman awaiting a second kidney transplant has created Flowers for a Future, a fundraising event for organ transplant patients, living donors and their families.
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Math Matches Kidney Donors to Patients.
Last December Toledo, OH-based Alliance for Paired Donation adopted Sandholm's system. In the most recent cycle, they found about 15 matches. Tracy Staedter, Discovery News
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Paired kidney donation effective in overcoming incompatibilities
Wednesday 5th October, 2005
A preliminary study suggests that kidney paired donation transplantation, in which incompatible donor/recipient pairs exchange kidneys so that each recipient receives a compatible kidney, had graft survival rates equivalent to compatible live donor transplants, according to a study in the October 5 issue of JAMA.
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Carnegie Mellon Scientists Devise Method to Increase Kidney Transplants
PITTSBURGH, June 11
Computerized Matching System Could Enable National Kidney ExchangeComputer scientists at Carnegie Mellon University have developed a new computerized method for matching living kidney donors with kidney disease patients that can increase the number of kidney transplants - and save lives.
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AST Applauds Congressional Passage of Paired Kidney Donation Legislation
WASHINGTON, March 9 /PRNewswire-USNewswire
The American Society of Transplantation (AST) applauds the efforts of its 2006 Legislators of the Year, Congressmen Jay Inslee (D-WA) and Charles Norwood (R-GA), who were successful in passing H.R. 710, the Charlie W. Norwood Living Organ Donation Act on Wednesday, March 7.
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Carl Levin: Senate Floor Statement on Living Kidney Organ Donation
All American Patriots (press release) -
Our legislation would simply add kidney paired donation to the list of other living-related donation exemptions that Congress originally placed in NOTA.
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Wall Street Journal Article from 2004
Renal Donors Swap RecipientsIf Blood Types Don't Match
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Kidney Exchange: A Life-Saving Application of Matching Theory.
Economists help build a kidney exchange system that saves lives.October 5, 2005
Editor's note: On March 28, 2007, the Justice Department issued a legal memo stating that paired kidney donations do not violate a provision of the National Organ Transplant Act that makes it illegal to acquire an organ for transplant in exchange for "valuable consideration." The Justice opinion, issued in response to a question from the Department of Health and Human Services, is expected to increase the number transplants resulting from paired donations.
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