National Kidney Registry and paired exchanges, chains

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If a patient has a donor who is not a match, there's still hope. The National Kidney Registry allows transplant centers to register donors and recipients directly in a database and participate in multi-center paired exchanges. Participation delivers the following benefits to transplant centers:

    * Facilitates more living donor transplants by overcoming donor incompatibility.
    * Provides better outcomes for patients by improving the compatibility of donor/recipient matches.
    * Reduces the wait time for a transplant.
    * Saves/ Improves the lives of patients.

To see if your center is listed go to http://www.kidneyregistry.org/transplant_center.php

If there is not a participating center in your area, ask the recipients center if they will help get a compatible kidney by working with the National Kidney Registry. More info here: http://www.kidneyregistry.org/index.php