Impact of Transplant Nephrectomy for Patient Survival Over the Past 15 Years: A Single-Center Study.

CONCLUSIONS: After graft failure, patients without nephrectomy did not have inferior survival versus patients who received early or late nephrectomy. Graft survival time and relisting for transplant were associated with patient survival regardless of having transplant nephrectomy.
PMID: 30295584 [PubMed - as supplied by publisher]

Source: Experimental and Clinical Transplantation : official journal of the Middle East Society for Organ Transplantation - October 5, 2018 Category: Transplant Surgery Authors: Muramatsu M, Hyodo Y, Sheaff M, Aikawa A, Yaqoob M, Puliatti C Tags: Exp Clin Transplant Source Type: research