NBC NEWS | Gordon Tokumatsu
During this season of giving, a UCLA program that connects patients with matching through an innovative exchange program celebrated on Monday more than 100 transplants.
The UCLA Kidney Exchange Program calls itself an “innovative twist on efforts” to increase the organ donor pool. It gives patients who are unable to receive a kidney from a loved one the change to still receive a kidney through an exchange between incompatible donor-recipient pairs.
“It opened the doors, the floodgates, to hundreds and hundreds of people to be able to get a transplant,” said Greg Thompson, a kidney donor.
Thompson’s healthy kidney did not match his ailing wife’s body, but once he was in the exchange, it went to save the life of a man in Oxnard.
In exchange, his wife received a kidney that did match her own.
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Tuesday, 3 December 2013
UCLA Kidney Exchange Program "Opens Floodgates" to Transplants for Hundreds of Patients
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