A Patient Is Waiting for a Kidney Transplant

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Essay

A patient is waiting for a kidney transplant. In order for the transplant to be successful, the donated kidney (the graft) must ʺmatchʺ with the recipient. What has to ʺmatchʺ between the donor and the recipient? Why is matching tissue more difficult than matching blood types?

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Definitions:

Acid-Test Ratio

A financial metric that measures a company's ability to pay off its current liabilities with its quick assets, such as cash, accounts receivable, and short-term investments.

Quick Assets

Quick Assets are those assets that can be quickly converted into cash, typically including cash, marketable securities, and receivables.

Price/Earnings

A ratio used to value a company by dividing its current share price by its per-share earnings, indicating the dollar amount an investor can expect to invest in a company in order to receive one dollar of that company’s earnings.