Inter-Club Kidney Exchange

Operation Frames and Clubs in Kidney Exchange

A kidney exchange is a centrally-administered barter market where patients swap their willing yet incompatible donors. Modern kidney exchanges use 2-cycles, 3-cycles, and chains initiated by nondirected donors (altruists who are willing to give a kidney to anyone) as the means for swapping. We propose significant generalizations to kidney exchange. We allow more than one donor to donate in exch...

Individuality manifests in the dynamic reconfiguration of large-scale brain networks during movie viewing

Individuality, the uniqueness that distinguishes one person from another, may manifest as diverse rearrangements of functional connectivity during heterogeneous cognitive demands; yet, the neurobiological substrates of individuality, reflected in inter-individual variations of large-scale functional connectivity, have not been fully evidenced. Accordingly, we explored inter-individual variation...

Isotonic hydration reduced contrast media-associated nephropathy in elective or emergency coronary angioplasty.

Intensive and less-intensive renal replacement therapy did not differ for death or kidney function in critically ill patients.

Patients: 1124 critically ill adults who were ≥ 18 years of age (mean age 60 y, 71% men), had acute kidney injury due to acute tubular necrosis, required RRT, and had sepsis or failure of ≥ 1 nonrenal organ system. Exclusion criteria included baseline serum creatinine > 2 mg/dL (177 μmol/L) in men or > 1.5 mg/dL (133 μmol/L) in women, previous kidney transplantation, pregnancy, and short life e...

A snapshot of chronic ankle instability in a cohort of netball players.

OBJECTIVES Ankle injuries account for the highest percentage of injuries in netball, yet the chronic nature of ankle sprains is under reported within this population group. Chronic ankle instability is a term used to describe certain insufficiencies that persist after an acute ankle sprain. The aim of this study was to investigate recurrent sprain, perceived ankle instability and mechanical ank...