title: Successful three-way kidney paired donation transplantation: The first Indian report.
abstract: Providing transplantation opportunities for patients with incompatible live donors through kidney paired donation (KPD) is an important strategy for easing the crisis in organ availability. KPD is can overcome the barriers when the only living potential donors are deemed unsuitable owing to an incompatibility of blood type, of human leukocyte antigen cross-match, or both. In KPD, the incompatibility problems with two donor recipient pairs can be solved by exchanging donors. In the absence of well-organized deceased donor program, or transplantation with desensitization protocol and ABO incompatible transplantation, living donor KPD promises hope to the growing number of patients suffering from end-stage renal disease in India. We report our first successful three-way KPD transplantation from India. In an era of organ shortage, this approach is relevant to encourage wider participation from KPD donors and transplant centers to prevent commercial transplantation.
authors.affiliation: Department of Nephrology and Clinical Transplantation, Institute of Kidney Diseases and Research Center, Dr. HL Trivedi Institute of Transplantation Sciences, Ahmedabad, India.
authors.forename: V B
authors.initials: VB
authors.lastname: Kute
authors.affiliation: Department of Nephrology and Clinical Transplantation, Institute of Kidney Diseases and Research Center, Dr. HL Trivedi Institute of Transplantation Sciences, Ahmedabad, India.
authors.forename: M R
authors.initials: MR
authors.lastname: Gumber
authors.affiliation: Department of Nephrology and Clinical Transplantation, Institute of Kidney Diseases and Research Center, Dr. HL Trivedi Institute of Transplantation Sciences, Ahmedabad, India.
authors.forename: P R
authors.initials: PR
authors.lastname: Shah
authors.affiliation: Department of Nephrology and Clinical Transplantation, Institute of Kidney Diseases and Research Center, Dr. HL Trivedi Institute of Transplantation Sciences, Ahmedabad, India.
authors.forename: H V
authors.initials: HV
authors.lastname: Patel
authors.affiliation: Department of Pathology, Laboratory Medicine, Transfusion Services and Immunohematology, Institute of Kidney Diseases and Research Center, Dr. HL Trivedi Institute of Transplantation Sciences, Ahmedabad, India.
authors.forename: A V
authors.initials: AV
authors.lastname: Vanikar
authors.affiliation: Department of Urology and Transplantation, Institute of Kidney Diseases and Research Center, Dr. HL Trivedi Institute of Transplantation Sciences, Ahmedabad, India.
authors.forename: P R
authors.initials: PR
authors.lastname: Modi
authors.affiliation: Department of Anesthesia and Critical Care, Institute of Kidney Diseases and Research Center, Dr. HL Trivedi Institute of Transplantation Sciences, Ahmedabad, India.
authors.forename: V R
authors.initials: VR
authors.lastname: Shah
authors.affiliation: Department of Nephrology and Clinical Transplantation, Institute of Kidney Diseases and Research Center, Dr. HL Trivedi Institute of Transplantation Sciences, Ahmedabad, India.
authors.forename: H L
authors.initials: HL
authors.lastname: Trivedi
keywords: Kidney paired donation; living donor; renal transplantation; three-way