{"id":255,"date":"2008-04-09T17:28:29","date_gmt":"2008-04-09T21:28:29","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/mat.tepper.cmu.edu\/blog\/?p=249"},"modified":"2008-04-09T17:28:29","modified_gmt":"2008-04-09T21:28:29","slug":"six-kidney-exchange","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mat.tepper.cmu.edu\/blog\/index.php\/2008\/04\/09\/six-kidney-exchange\/","title":{"rendered":"Six Kidney Exchange"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Following up on a <a href=\"http:\/\/mat.tepper.cmu.edu\/blog\/?p=180\">previous post on kidney exchanges<\/a> and operations research (which becomes a pun in this context!), Johns Hopkins Hospital has just done a<a href=\"http:\/\/news.bbc.co.uk\/2\/hi\/health\/7338437.stm\"> six-way kidney exchange<\/a>.\u00a0  Interestingly, this was not done done totally with friends and relatives:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>The procedure was made possible after an altruistic donor &#8211; neither a friend nor relative of any of the six patients &#8211; was found to match one of them.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>I would think that knowing the effect on six\u00a0 needy recipients was a great incentive for the altruistic donor.<\/p>\n<p>Thanks to <a href=\"https:\/\/www.cs.auckland.ac.nz\/~mcw\/blog\/\">Mark in Auckland<\/a> for the pointer!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Following up on a previous post on kidney exchanges and operations research (which becomes a pun in this context!), Johns Hopkins Hospital has just done a six-way kidney exchange.\u00a0 Interestingly, this was not done done totally with friends and relatives: The procedure was made possible after an altruistic donor &#8211; neither a friend nor relative &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/mat.tepper.cmu.edu\/blog\/index.php\/2008\/04\/09\/six-kidney-exchange\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Six Kidney Exchange&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[35],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-255","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-medicine"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mat.tepper.cmu.edu\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/255","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mat.tepper.cmu.edu\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mat.tepper.cmu.edu\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mat.tepper.cmu.edu\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mat.tepper.cmu.edu\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=255"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mat.tepper.cmu.edu\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/255\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mat.tepper.cmu.edu\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=255"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mat.tepper.cmu.edu\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=255"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mat.tepper.cmu.edu\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=255"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}