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Course: Launching Liver Exchange and the First 3-Way Liver Paired Donation

CME Credits: 1.00

Released: 2022-12-07

There is a shortage of transplantable organs almost everywhere in the world. In the US, about 6000 transplant candidates die waiting each year. In Pakistan, 30% to 50% of patients who needed a liver transplant are unable to secure a compatible donor, and about 10,000 people die each year waiting for a liver. Kidney paired donations, supported by Nobel Prize–winning kidney exchange (KE) algorithms, have enabled living donor kidneys to become an important source of kidneys. Exchanges supported by algorithms that systematically identify the optimal set of paired donations has yet to take hold for liver transplant.


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