From the Department of Internal Medicine and Nephrology, Faculty of Medicine, Cairo University, Cairo, Egypt.
Exp Clin Transplant. 2022 Aug;20(Suppl 4):59-61. doi: 10.6002/ect.DonorSymp.2022.O2.
The idea for a kidney exchange program was expressed by Dr. Felix Rapaport in 1986; since then, it has been increasing all over the world. This article discusses the indications of kidney paired donation and how it proved to be the best option for living donation, the innovations done for its expansion over the years, and how to adopt it in countries deprived of this service, highlighting the measures it takes for its implementation and the drawbacks of its nonexistence.
肾脏捐献计划的想法是由 Felix Rapaport 博士在 1986 年提出的；从那时起，它就在全世界范围内不断增加。本文讨论了肾脏配对捐赠的适应症，以及它如何被证明是活体捐赠的最佳选择，讨论了多年来为扩大其应用范围所做的创新，以及如何在缺乏这项服务的国家中采用它，强调了实施该计划所采取的措施以及不存在该计划的缺点。
