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ArticleHealth systems (Basingstoke, England)2024

Long term simulation analysis of deceased donor initiated chains in kidney exchange programs.

Utkarsh Verma, Nayaran Rangaraj, Viswanath Billa, Deepa Usulumarty

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Article in Health systems (Basingstoke, England), 2024. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 2 papers.

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  1. Novel Allocation Strategies Can Boost Kidney Exchange Programs: A Monte Carlo Simulation.Transplant international : official journal of the European Society for Organ Transplantation · 2026
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Utkarsh VermaDepartment of Industrial Engineering and Operations Research, Indian Institute of Technology, Bombay, Mumbai, India.ORCID https://orcid.org/0000-0003-4756-6856
Nayaran RangarajDepartment of Industrial Engineering and Operations Research, Indian Institute of Technology, Bombay, Mumbai, India.
Viswanath BillaApex Swap Transplant Registry, Apex Kidney Foundation, Mumbai, India.
Deepa UsulumartyDepartment of Nephrology, Bombay Hospital, Mumbai, India.

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6 · The paper itself

Abstract

Kidney exchange programs (KEPs) aim to find compatible kidneys for recipients with incompatible donors. Patients without a living donor depend upon deceased donor (DD) donations to get a kidney transplant. In India, a ©DD donates kidneys directly to a©DD wait-list. The idea of initiating an exchange chain starting from a ©DD kidney is proposed in a few articles (and executed in Italy in 2018), but no mathematical formulation has been given for this merger. We have introduced an integer programming formulation that creates ©DD-initiated chains, considering both paired exchange registry and ©DD allocations simultaneously and addressing the overlap issue between the exchange registry and ©DD wait-list as recipients can register for both registries independently. A long-term simulation study is done to ©analyse the gain of these DD-initiated chains over time. It suggests that even with small numbers of ©DDs, these chains can significantly increase potential transplants.

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deceased donor allocationHealth care managementinteger programming modelkidney exchange programsimulation

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PMID38800603
PMCPMC11123553

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