Since January 1,2015, the use of executed prisoners’ organs as a source of organs for transplantation has been completely stopped in the country, with the exception of organ donations from living relatives, donation after citizen death (DCD) has become the only channel for organ transplantation in the country. Living relative kidney transplantation has become another option for uremic patients due to the shortage of donor kidneys for DCD.
Relative kidney transplantation has obvious advantages over DCD donor kidney transplantation (“DCD kidney transplantation” for short) . We only compare it with DCD kidney transplantation from an economic point of view, and analyze the advantages of relative kidney transplantation. The financial cost of a kidney transplant mainly includes three parts: paying for the preservation and transportation of the donor kidney (hereinafter referred to as“Donor kidney fee”) , the cost of purchasing immunosuppressive drugs, and the cost of preventing and treating postoperative complications.
