National Kidney Registry
| Company type | For-profit |
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| Founded | July 12, 2007 |
| Headquarters | , U.S. |
Area served | U.S. |
| Website | kidneyregistry |
The National Kidney Registry (NKR) is a national registry in the United States listing kidney donors and recipients in need of a kidney transplant. NKR facilitates hundreds of "Kidney Paired Donation" (KPD) or "Paired Exchange" transplants annually.
More than one-third of potential living kidney donors who want to donate their kidney to a friend or family member cannot because of blood type or antibody incompatibility. Historically, these donors would be turned away and the patient would lose the opportunity to receive a life-saving kidney transplant. KPD overcomes donor-recipient incompatibility by swapping kidneys between multiple donor-recipient pairs, and connecting them in longer chains, as well as taking an altruistic non-directed donor, and starting chains of kidney transplants.
What the NKR does is consolidate the incompatible pairs of donors and recipients from transplant centers all over the United States, into a single registry, and facilitate the transplant process.