title: Kidney paired donation: a single center approach to increase living donor transplantation.
abstract: Methodist Specialty and Transplant Hospital has performed a total of 125 KPD transplants from the onset of the program in Dec. 2007. With the addition of the KPD program, live donor transplants have increased annually by 35% demonstrating the ability to substantially increase access to transplantation utilizing this modality. Furthermore, KPD combined with selective desensitization has provided a means for individualized assessment and management of the highly sensitized patient.
authors.affiliation: Texas Transplant Institute, Methodist Specialty and Transplant Hospital, Southwest Immunodiagnostics Laboratory, San Antonio, Texas, USA.
authors.forename: Adam
authors.initials: A
authors.lastname: Bingaman
authors.forename: Matthias
authors.initials: M
authors.lastname: Kapturczak
authors.forename: Cathi
authors.initials: C
authors.lastname: Murphey
authors.forename: Francis
authors.initials: F
authors.lastname: Wright
mesh_terms: D019992:Databases as Topic; D046148:Donor Selection; D006648:Histocompatibility; D006801:Humans; D016030:Kidney Transplantation / Q000276:immunology; D019520:Living Donors / Q000600:supply & distribution*; D016730:Program Development; D015397:Program Evaluation; D013781:Texas; D013997:Time Factors; D009927:Tissue and Organ Procurement; D016896:Treatment Outcome