This article updates the unique opportunities available to kidney transplant candidates through kidney paired donation (KPD). KPD enables kidney transplant candidates with willing but incompatible living donors to enroll in a registry of other incompatible pairs to find a compatible transplant. Because of the ongoing shortage of deceased donor organs, KPD represents the most promising opportunity to increase the number of kidneys available for transplantation.
Keywords: Altruistic donor; Desensitization; Incompatible; Kidney exchange; Living donor kidney transplantation; Nondirected donor; Paired donation.
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