Paired kidney exchange programs have significantly expanded access to kidney transplantation.

“and and really took off in the 2000s because it allowed people to avail themselves of broader opportunities for transplant”

“so could we could we start putting some value on those exchanges and create networks of individuals it's kind of like the dating game for kidneys where you come forward with your donor and the algorithm looks at all the other possible pairs and tries to matches match individuals in a way that maximizes predicted outcome and the there are now national networks that facilitate those sorts of exchanges and have really expanded kidney transplantation in ways that i don't think even we would have predicted watching it back in the 1990s”

“it's also what's led to some of the things you alluded to you know paired kidney exchanges and other things to try and expand the the compatibility of donors and recipients”