Nearly two years after the world’s longest chain of kidney transplants started with an altruistic donor from Michigan, an article about the locally coordinated approach to generate more and better matches is appearing Thursday in the prestigious New England Journal of Medicine.
University of Toledo Medical Center transplant surgeon Dr. Michael Rees, medical director of Maumee-based Alliance for Paired Donation Inc., said the article should give critical exposure to the alliance’s method aimed at increasing life-saving kidney transplants.
The alliance’s method is based on an altruistic donor who voluntarily gives a kidney to anyone in need, starting a chain reaction among recipients with willing but incompatible donors who in turn donate to another person.
The article explains ...
