Simulating the impact of crossover kidney transplantation on the Nord Italia transplant program

DOI10.3390/G7040030MaRDI QIDQ725048zbMATH OpenOpenAlexFDO

Authors Monica Salvioli, Roberto Lucchetti, Rosanna Torelli

Publication date 1 August 2018

Published in Games (Search for Journal in Brave)

Copyright license Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International

Full work available at URL https://doi.org/10.3390/g7040030

zbMATH Keywords

cycles and chainsdichotomous preferenceskidney transplantationliving donorpriority mechanismTTCC

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Applications of graph theory (05C90) Matching models (91B68)

Review text

Summary: The increasing number of patients affected by chronic kidney disease makes it necessary to rely on living donors. However, a patient often cannot exploit her potential donor, due to blood or tissue incompatibility. Therefore, crossover transplantation programs have been developed in several countries in order to increase the number of people receiving a kidney from a living donor. After reviewing the essential medical facts needed for the subsequent results, we quickly introduce two known algorithms for crossover transplantation. Next, we consider a dataset provided by the Nord Italia transplant program, and we apply the above algorithms in order to highlight the benefits of these efficient procedures.

Recommendations

• Algorithms for kidney donation
• Kidney exchange programs with a priori crossmatch probing
• Pairwise kidney exchange over the blood group barrier
• Maximising expectation of the number of transplants in kidney exchange programmes
• Kidney exchange: an egalitarian mechanism

Cites work

• Dynamic kidney exchange
• Kidney Exchange
• Maximum matching and a polyhedron with 0,1-vertices
• Pairwise kidney exchange
• Paths, Trees, and Flowers

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