title: A report from the UNOS Scientific Renal Transplant Registry.
abstract: The UNOS Kidney Transplant Registry is now fully operational. Aside from scientific reports from UCLA, analysis of the same data base from investigators who initiate projects through UNOS central in Richmond, as well as from HICFA and USRDS, can be anticipated. Plans are underway to simplify the reporting process. With the large number of accumulated cases, it should be possible to analyze many factors in the future. Presently, histocompatibility differences in living related vs cadaver donors and degrees of HLA mismatching among recipients of cadaveric kidneys are major factors. Immunization by transplant rejection is the second most important factor.
authors.affiliation: UCLA Tissue Typing Laboratory 90024.
authors.forename: P I
authors.initials: PI
authors.lastname: Terasaki
authors.forename: J M
authors.initials: JM
authors.lastname: Cecka
authors.forename: Y
authors.initials: Y
authors.lastname: Cho
authors.forename: S
authors.initials: S
authors.lastname: Takemoto
authors.forename: M R
authors.initials: MR
authors.lastname: Mickey
mesh_terms: D006085:Graft Survival; D006650:Histocompatibility Testing; D006801:Humans; D016030:Kidney Transplantation / Q000276:immunology; D012042:Registries; D014481:United States