 There are over 20,000 patients on the kidney transplant waitlist who have become highly sensitized, making finding a compatible donor extremely difficult.These patients often spend years on the kidney transplant waitlist looking for a compatible donor.In a 2016 study published in the "New England Journal of Medicine", Segev and his team found that patients who received a kidney transplant from an incompatible live donor had a much higher survival benefit compared to patients who stayed on dialysis or waited for a deceased donor transplant.