Global kidney chains.
Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A
; 118(36)2021 09 07.
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| ID: mdl-34462358
ABSTRACT
Kidney failure is a worldwide scourge, made more lethal by the shortage of transplants. We propose a way to organize kidney exchange chains internationally between middle-income countries with financial barriers to transplantation and high-income countries with many hard to match patients and patient-donor pairs facing lengthy dialysis. The proposal involves chains of exchange that begin in the middle-income country and end in the high-income country. We also propose a way of financing such chains using savings to US health care payers.
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Doadores de Tecidos
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Obtenção de Tecidos e Órgãos
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Transplante de Rim
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En
Ano de publicação:
2021
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