Clinical outcome of renal transplantation. Factors influencing patient and graft survival.
The 1-year graft survival rate for primary cadaver kidney transplants performed in the US during the past 9 years was 82%, and it was 94% when living donor kidneys were transplanted. After the first year, however, half of the surviving cadaveric grafts will fail within 8 years. This late rate has not changed substantially in the past 20 years. This article describes some of the factors that affect long-term graft and patient survival rates.
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UNOS Scientific Renal Transplant Registry, Department of Surgery, University of California Los Angeles, USA.
D000367:Age Factors; D000906:Antibodies / Q000276:immunology; D002102:Cadaver; D006084:Graft Rejection / Q000150:complications / Q000276:immunology; D006085:Graft Survival; D006680:HLA Antigens / Q000276:immunology; D006648:Histocompatibility; D006801:Humans; D007511:Ischemia / Q000150:complications; D007668:Kidney / Q000098:blood supply; D007674:Kidney Diseases / Q000503:physiopathology; D016030:Kidney Transplantation / Q000276:immunology; D019520:Living Donors; D018579:Patient Selection; D012307:Risk Factors; D015996:Survival Rate; D016896:Treatment Outcome
D000906:Antibodies; D006680:HLA Antigens