title: Blood transfusion and primary graft survival in male recipients.
abstract: The outcome of primary kidney transplantation in 241 male patients was studied with reference to pretransplant blood transfusions. 55 patients received kidneys from living related donors with one shared HLA-haplotype, 186 patients received kidneys from cadaveric donors. The graft survival was calculated after exclusion of graft loss due to non-immunological reasons. The graft survival was found to be significantly higher in transfused recipients, especially in patients receiving kidneys from living related donors.
mesh_terms: D001803:Blood Transfusion; D002102:Cadaver; D006085:Graft Survival; D006801:Humans; D016030:Kidney Transplantation; D008297:Male; D014184:Transplantation, Homologous