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Hopkins Study Shows Living Kidney 'Paired Donation' an Effective Strategy in Overcoming Donor-Recipient Incompatiblities; Results Suggest Technique Can Offer Transplants to Many More Patients.

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Byline: Johns Hopkins Medical Institutions

BALTIMORE, Oct. 4 (AScribe Newswire) -- A Johns Hopkins study has affirmed the success of living kidney "paired donation" (KPD) as a means of efficiently finding more kidney donors who are a match for patients in need.

In the study, published in the Oct. 5 issue of The Journal of the American Medical Association, Hopkins surgeons report successfully performing KPD transplants on 21 out of 22 kidney patients whose willing donors were incompatible by matching them up with other incompatible pairs. Robert Montgomery, M.D., Ph.D., the director of the Comprehensive Transplant Center at Hopkins and lead researcher in the study, said the results could pave the way to a national matching registry that would enable hundreds and perhaps thousands of…

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