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About 4,000 people die every year waiting for kidney transplants, and Carnegie Mellon University computer scientists believe they've found a way to cut that number - using math.
The program was run in early May by the Alliance for Paired Donation, a kidney exchange program for 50 transplant centers in 15 states. It identified four potential two-way exchanges, three three-way exchanges and one four-way exchange among about 100 donor-patient pairs and seven altruistic donors. Whether any of those transplants take place depends on final compatibility testing.
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