High Survival Rates of Kidney Transplants from Spousal and Living Unrelated Donors

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Paul I. Terasaki · University of California, Los Angeles

Steven K. Takemoto · Terasaki Foundation

Abstract

Spouses are an important source of living-donor kidney grafts because, despite poor HLA matching, the graft-survival rate is similar to that of parental-donor kidneys. This high rate of survival is attributed to the fact that the kidneys were uniformly healthy.

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Organ Donation and Transplantation Renal Transplantation Outcomes and Treatments

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Published in: New England Journal of Medicine

Volume 333, Issue 6, pp. 333-336

DOI: 10.1056/nejm199508103330601

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