Optimization over graphs for kidney paired donation

Sommer E. Gentry

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Abstract

Resource allocation problems are ubiquitous in the optimization literature, and perhaps no resource is more ethically and practically challenging to allocate than the limited number of suitable solid organs for transplantation. The most frequently transplanted solid organs are kidney and liver, in that order. Optimization models may consider the objectives of and decisions made by various stakeholders in transplantation, such as individual recipients (living donor livers) [1], or society in the form of the United Network for Organ Sharing (UNOS) (deceased donor kidneys) [2]. Su et al. demonstrated that individual autonomy can degrade the performance of a societal optimization mechanism [3]. This chapter will focus on the case of kidney paired donation, introducing both the medical background and mathematical tools used to find a societally optimal allocation of organs for this type of transplant [4].

Original languageEnglish (US)
Title of host publicationOptimization in Medicine and Biology
PublisherTaylor and Francis
Pages177-195
Number of pages19
ISBN (Electronic)9780849305696
DOIs
StatePublished - Jan 1 2008

ASJC Scopus subject areas

  • Economics, Econometrics and Finance(all)
  • General Business, Management and Accounting
  • General Medicine
  • General Biochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology
  • General Engineering

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