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17081229

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rdf:type
lifeskim:mentions
pubmed:issue
12
pubmed:dateCreated
2006-11-3
pubmed:abstractText
Kidney exchange donation programs offer a good solution to help patients with a willing, but incompatible living kidney donor. Literature shows that blood type O patients are less likely to be selected for transplantation within a living exchange donation program. 'Altruistically unbalanced donation' could help these blood type O patients: one donor-recipient pair is incompatible (e.g. A-donor > O-recipient) and the other pair is compatible, but not identical (e.g. O-donor > A-recipient). Exchanging these kidneys would result in two compatible living donor kidney transplants. We studied whether compatible pairs would be willing to participate in such procedure. We included 96 living kidney donors and recipients in our study. These donors and recipients could be divided into two groups: (i) donors and their direct recipients (n = 48), and (ii) paired exchange donors and their intended recipients (n = 48). All were asked whether they would be willing to participate in altruistically unbalanced exchange donation, as long as direct donation was also an option. We found no group differences. We found that one third of the donors and recipients are willing to participate in altruistically unbalanced kidney exchanges. Therefore this form of donation may be a feasible addition to already existing living kidney exchange programs.
pubmed:language
eng
pubmed:journal
pubmed:citationSubset
IM
pubmed:chemical
pubmed:status
MEDLINE
pubmed:month
Dec
pubmed:issn
0934-0874
pubmed:author
pubmed:issnType
Print
pubmed:volume
19
pubmed:owner
NLM
pubmed:authorsComplete
Y
pubmed:pagination
995-9
pubmed:meshHeading
pubmed:year
2006
pubmed:articleTitle
One donor, two transplants: willingness to participate in altruistically unbalanced exchange donation.
pubmed:affiliation
Department of Medical Psychology and Psychotherapy, Erasmus University Medical Center, Rotterdam, The Netherlands. l.kranenburg@erasmusmc.nl
pubmed:publicationType
Journal Article, Research Support, Non-U.S. Gov't