734300login-checkNew matching system enables world’s first four-way liver exchange |
Reviewed by Lily Ramsey, LLM
In a breakthrough in liver transplantation that may lead to the ability to connect more living donors and patients, a new matching system designed by a team led by Boston College economists enabled the world’s first four-way liver exchange and a cascade of additional matches, researchers reported recently in the American Journal of Transplantation.
The results show that expanding the capacity of the donor-patient matching mechanism beyond the traditional 2-way change – matching two patients with two donors – can increase the number of transplants that can be matched among a larger group of participants, according to the study, co-authored by BC Professors of Economics Tayfun Sonmez and Utku Unver. Read the complete article in News Medical Life Sciences.
734300login-checkNew matching system enables world’s first four-way liver exchange |