The Mayo Clinic Kidney Transplant Program is among the largest in the country, performing nearly 200 hundred kidney transplants each year. Mayo Clinic transplant care teams emphasize living donor kidney transplants and transplantation before initiation of dialysis. Other hallmarks of the program include rapid time from first call to transplant and unique transplant options, such as paired kidney donation, ABO incompatible kidney transplant and positive crossmatch kidney transplantation. The program has particular expertise in individuals with polycystic kidney disease (PKD) and kidney transplantation in people who have a kidney disease that is likely to recur after transplant.

In this video, Dr. Mikel Prieto discusses our paired kidney exchange program. This involves a patient needing a transplant who has one or more healthy living donor volunteers, but with incompatibility concerns. The best outcome for the recipient is receiving a transplanted kidney is from a living donor who is a compatible match. A paired exchange program increases the opportunity for all patients involved in the exchange to receive a transplanted kidney from the most appropriate donor.

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