ITN Vol 15; Issue 46, 2015-2016

77 Kidney Paired Donation Transplantation in 2015 at IKDRC-ITS, Ahmedabad, India

ITN also features scientific articles. This one by Dr Vivek Kute describes the experience of the Institute of Kidney Diseases and Research Center with paired kidney donation transplantations.

“… Our single center KPD has increased the LDKT rate by 25% in year 2015. If productivity of our KPD program is replicated on a national level, it will increase LDKT to more than 25%. To the best of our knowledge this is the largest number of KPD transplantations in single center in one year in the world…”