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Volume 337:1392-1393 November 6, 1997 Number 19
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Paired-Kidney-Exchange Programs

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To the Editor: The International Forum for Transplant Ethics strongly supports paired kidney exchange, as proposed by Ross et al. (June 12 issue).1 It is ethically acceptable and would allow more living-donor kidneys to be transplanted. There are countries, however (such as the United Kingdom), where such a program would require a change in the law, as the following case illustrates:

A child was admitted from overseas for a renal transplant to be donated by his father. After their arrival in England, the crossmatch between donor cells and recipient serum was positive. The transplantation was canceled. The boy's father then . . . [Full Text of this Article]

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