Swap Donation: New Hope for Transplant Patients

Abstract

The quest for transplantable organs is upmost in the minds of any patient with irreversible organ failure when they are placed in the transplant list. There is a huge demand supply mismatch that makes this problem a real concern for the potential recipient and the family and well-wishers. The supply of organs comes from related live donors, unrelated live donors
and deceased donors from brain dead donors. In India the potential renal recipients are nearly 1.5 lakhs yearly whereas the annual kidney transplant rate is probably ten thousand. The ratio is more alarming when liver transplant is considered.