A novel method to increase the kidney donor pool: A fusion model linking the deceased donor waitlist to a paired kidney exchange program

Aim: To merge the deceased donor (DD) and the paired kidney exchange (PKE) allocation processes, creating a fusion model. Materials and Methods: One of the DD kidneys are allocated to the first patient on the DD wait-list and the other kidney is allocated to the PKE registry to initiate a chain of swap transplants. The last donor of this PKE chain donates his kidney back to the second patient on the DD wait-list. Results: There was a 28.1% (P