PDN Scientific Publications

Woodle ES, Rees M, Bohnengel A, Aeder M, Goldfarb D, Henry M, et al.  A consideration of critical mass in living donor kidney exchange programs. (abstract) Am J Transplantation 5: 373, 2005.

Woodle ES, Goldfarb D, Aeder M, Lal T, Rike A, Weimert N, Waterman A.   Establishment of a nationalized, multiregional paired donation network.  In Clinical Transplants 2005,  Cecka M, Ed, UCLA Press, 2006.

Woodle ES. The potential of paired donation programs: modeling and reality.   Am J Transplant 5: 1787-1788, 2005.

Ross LF, Rubin DT, Siegler M, Josephson MA, Thistlethwaite JR, Woodle ES.  Ethics of a paired-kidney-exchange program. New Engl J Med 336: 1752-1755, 1997.

Ross LF and Woodle ES.  Kidney exchange programs: an expanded view of the ethical issues. In Touraine JL et al (eds) Organ Allocation, 285-295.

Ross LF and Woodle ES.  Ethical issues in increasing living kidney donations by expanding kidney paired exchange programs. Transplantation 69: 1539-1543, 2000.

Zenios S, Woodle ES, and Ross LF.  Primum non nocere: avoiding harm to vulnerable wait list candidates in an indirect kidney exchange. Transplantation 72: 648-654, 2001.

Woodle ES, Boardman R, Bohnengel A, Downing K, for the Ohio Solid Organ Transplant Consortium Kidney Transplant Committee.  Influence of educational programs on perceived barriers toward living donor kidney exchange programs (LDKEPs). Transplant Proc 37: 602-604, 2005.

Waterman AD, Schenka EA, Barretta AC, Waterman BM, Rodrique JR, Woodle ES, Shenoy s, Jendrisak M, Schnitzler M.  Incompatible kidney donor candidates' willingness to participate in donor-exchange and non-directed donation.  Am J Transplantation 6:1631,2006.

Delmonico, FL, Stoff JS, Milford E, Harmon WE, and Woodle ES.  Living unrelated organ donation: an exchange proposal. Graft 1: 119-121, 1998.
A Success Story: The Vollmars and the Meyers
Daniel Vollmar (second from the left in the picture) wanted to donate to his mother, Josephine (on the left in the picture), but Josephine developed immunity to Daniel's tissues when she was pregnant with him. Rose Meyer (on the right in the picture)  wanted to donate to her husband, Paul, but her blood type (blood type A) was not compatible with Paul's blood type (blood type O).  The Meyers were entered into the PDC web-based computer matching program by their transplant coordinator at the Christ Hospital in Cincinnati, and the Vollmars were entered by their  transplant coordinator at the Medical University of Ohio.

After they were matched by the computer, and  crossmatching testing was performed to assure sure that Daniel's kidney was compatible with Paul and that Rose's kidney was compatible with Josephine.   After these tests were completed, they met each other (see CNN story "A Vital Trade" below. 

A few weeks later, in a paired donation procedure, Rose donated her kidney to Josephine, and Daniel donated to Paul. Josephine would have likely waited three years or more for a kidney on the deceased donor wait list. Paul never had to go on dialysis, where he would have also waited for three or more years.  All four are doing well today, and have become close friends because of the extraordinary experience they had in the paired donation procedure.

 
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