Kidney paired donation
Kidney paired donation is an option for kidney transplant candidates who have a willing but incompatible donor. Here you can find resources for transplant professionals and patients.
Toolkits
Learn more
- State of KPD Report (PDF - 5/2016)
- List of participating transplant hospitals (193 K PDF; 7/2022)
Policy
- OPTN policy 13 - KPD (2.5 M PDF)
Histocompatibility testing
- KPD histocompatibility testing requirements checklist (PDF; 4/2019)
Financial resources
- Financial recommendations (12/2016)
- KPD Match Financial checklist (212 K PDF; 1/2020)
KPD e-manual
- Donor & candidate informed consent reference
(46 K PDF; 10/2019) - Donor medical record upload checklist (PDF; 7/2019)
- Match run for KPD donors to Waitlist (25 K PDF; 10/2013)
- KPD patient information for candidates and donors(5.1MB PDF; 05/2017)
- KPD success story videos
- Patient brochure (516KB PDF; 1/2021)
- Patient brochure, Spanish (417KB PDF; 05/2012)
- Order brochures from the UNOS store
- Living donation information on UNOS website