Survival Benefit with Kidney Transplants from HLA-Incompatible Live Donors
Author(s) -
Babak J. Orandi,
Xun Luo,
Allan B. Massie,
Jacqueline GaronzikWang,
Bonnie E. Lonze,
Rizwan Ahmed,
Kyle J. Van Arendonk,
Mark D. Stegall,
Stanley C. Jordan,
José Oberholzer,
Ty B. Dunn,
Lloyd E. Ratner,
Sandip Kapur,
Ronald P. Pelletier,
J.P. Roberts,
Marc L. Melcher,
Pooja Singh,
Debra L. Sudan,
Marc P. Posner,
Jose M. ElAmm,
Ron Shapiro,
Matthew Cooper,
George S. Lipkowitz,
Michael A. Rees,
Christopher L. Marsh,
Bashir R. Sankari,
David A. Gerber,
Paul W. Nelson,
Jason R. Wellen,
Adel Bozorgzadeh,
A. Osama Gaber,
Robert A. Montgomery,
Dorry L. Segev
Publication year - 2016
Publication title -
new england journal of medicine
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
eISSN - 1533-4406
pISSN - 0028-4793
DOI - 10.1056/nejmoa1508380
Subject(s) - medicine , waiting list , live donor , kidney transplantation , kidney , kidney transplant , transplantation , surgery
A report from a high-volume single center indicated a survival benefit of receiving a kidney transplant from an HLA-incompatible live donor as compared with remaining on the waiting list, whether or not a kidney from a deceased donor was received. The generalizability of that finding is unclear.
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