Allegheny General Hospital

Nation's Largest Ever Multi-State Paired Kidney Exchange Completed

Published in Health Business Week, April 30th, 2010

As participants in the nation's largest, multi-state paired kidney exchange to date, twelve people with advanced renal disease, including two from the greater Pittsburgh region, have received the gift of life though a groundbreaking new approach to living donor transplantation.

Paired kidney exchanges are designed for transplant candidates who have a willing but incompatible living donor. An organized exchange network matches such donor-recipients with other incompatible pairs for an exchange of suitable donors.

Pittsburgh's Allegheny General Hospital (AGH) was one of nine US transplant centers to participate in an unprecedented national chain of...

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Source: Health Business Week (2010-04-30)

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