In 2001, region 1 of United Network for Organ Sharing (UNOS) developed a program that permitted exchanges between two living donor/recipient pairs (living paired exchanges) and exchanges between a living donor and a deceased donor (list paired exchanges). Delmonico and colleagues report on their results through 2003 including four living paired exchanges and 17 list-paired exchanges (1).
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