Patient and Kidney Allograft Survival with National Kidney Paired Donation.

CONCLUSIONS: Even after transplanting patients with greater risk factors for worse post-transplant outcomes, nationalized paired donation results in equivalent outcomes when compared with control living donor kidney transplant recipients.
PMID: 31992572 [PubMed - as supplied by publisher]

Source: Clinical Journal of the American Society of Nephrology : CJASN - January 27, 2020 Category: Urology & Nephrology Authors: Leeser DB, Thomas AG, Shaffer AA, Veale JL, Massie AB, Cooper M, Kapur S, Turgeon N, Segev DL, Waterman AD, Flechner SM Tags: Clin J Am Soc Nephrol Source Type: research