title: Unrelated living donor kidney transplants.
abstract: Due to the shortage of cadaver donor kidneys in the US, an increasing effort has been made to supplement the donor supply with transplants from unrelated living donors (URLD). In the present communication, we wish to update the URLD results from the United Network for Organ Sharing (UNOS) Kidney Transplant Registry. Since we last published the results, the number of such transplants has more than doubled.
authors.affiliation: Tissue Typing Laboratory, University of California, Los Angeles 90095-1652, USA.
authors.forename: M M
authors.initials: MM
authors.lastname: Suzuki
authors.forename: J M
authors.initials: JM
authors.lastname: Cecka
authors.forename: P I
authors.initials: PI
authors.lastname: Terasaki
mesh_terms: D005190:Family; D006085:Graft Survival; D006801:Humans; D016030:Kidney Transplantation / Q000379:methods*; D019520:Living Donors; D014184:Transplantation, Homologous