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The Alliance for Paired Kidney Donation has launched a pilot program that would allow kidney exchanges for transplantation between the United States and Italy.

The 5-year allograft survival of a kidney transplanted from a deceased donor infected with the hepatitis C virus is comparable to a kidney from a donor who is not infected, according to data published in JAMA Network.

The American Kidney Fund announced its support for the passage of legal protections for living organ donors in Minnesota and Louisiana.

Kidney transplant recipients with HIV who receive kidneys from deceased donors with HIV show positive overall and allograft survival, according to a presentation at the American Transplant Congress.

Simulations revealed that using deceased donor kidneys in transplant chains could increase the number of transplants by 290 a year, according to data published in the Kidney International Reports.

In April, I became a living kidney donor.

LAS VEGAS — In this Healio Video Perspective from Eyecelerator@ASCRS, Edward J. Holland, MD, discusses investigational work that would potentially allow for one corneal donor to help up to “hundreds of patients with corneal edema.”

Presumed consent, by which a country’s residents agree to donate their organs upon death unless they actively opt out, has the potential to improve the donor rate in the United States but raises supply-and-demand issues, speakers said.

A study by Schold and colleagues in the Journal the American Society of Nephrology demonstrated no significant improvement in rates of waitlisting or access to transplantation for vulnerable populations for 2 decades.

The association of donor-recipient size mismatch on long-term graft survival is influenced greatly by recipient and donor age, according to findings from a recently published study.