Open AccessEvidence that the ratio of donor kidney weight to recipient body weight, donor age, and episodes of acute rejection correlate independently with live-donor graft function1,2
Author(s) -
Yu Seun Kim,
Myoung Soo Kim,
Dae Suk Han,
Dong Kee Kim,
Sung Min Myoung,
Soon Il Kim,
Kiil Park
Publication year - 2002
Publication title -
transplantation
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 1.45
H-Index - 204
eISSN - 1534-6080
pISSN - 0041-1337
DOI - 10.1097/00007890-200207270-00021
Subject(s) - renal function , creatinine , medicine , urology , kidney , body weight , correlation , kidney transplantation , mathematics , geometry
We demonstrated that higher donor kidney weight-to-recipient body weight (KW/BW) ratio showed better graft function in acute rejection-free renal recipients.