title: Kidney.
abstract: Kidney transplant provides significant survival, cost, and quality-of-life benefits over dialysis in patients with end-stage kidney disease, but the number of kidney transplant candidates on the waiting list continues to grow annually. By the end of 2014, nearly 100,000 adult candidates and 1500 pediatric candidates were waiting for kidney transplant. Not surprisingly, waiting times also continued to increase, along with the number of adult candidates removed from the list due to death or deteriorating medical condition. Death censored graft survival has increased after both living and deceased donor transplants over the past decade in adult recipients. The majority of the trends seen over the past 5 years continued in 2014. However, the new allocation system was implemented in late 2014, providing an opportunity to assess changes in these trends in the coming years.
authors.affiliation: Department of Medicine, Hennepin County Medical Center, University of Minnesota, Minneapolis, MN.
authors.forename: A
authors.initials: A
authors.lastname: Hart
authors.affiliation: Department of Pediatrics, University of Washington, Seattle, WA.|Scientific Registry of Transplant Recipients, Minneapolis Medical Research Foundation, Minneapolis, MN.
authors.forename: J M
authors.initials: JM
authors.lastname: Smith
authors.affiliation: Scientific Registry of Transplant Recipients, Minneapolis Medical Research Foundation, Minneapolis, MN.
authors.forename: M A
authors.initials: MA
authors.lastname: Skeans
authors.affiliation: Scientific Registry of Transplant Recipients, Minneapolis Medical Research Foundation, Minneapolis, MN.
authors.forename: S K
authors.initials: SK
authors.lastname: Gustafson
authors.affiliation: Organ Procurement and Transplantation Network, Richmond, VA.|United Network for Organ Sharing, Richmond, VA.
authors.forename: D E
authors.initials: DE
authors.lastname: Stewart
authors.affiliation: Organ Procurement and Transplantation Network, Richmond, VA.|United Network for Organ Sharing, Richmond, VA.
authors.forename: W S
authors.initials: WS
authors.lastname: Cherikh
authors.affiliation: Organ Procurement and Transplantation Network, Richmond, VA.|United Network for Organ Sharing, Richmond, VA.
authors.forename: J L
authors.initials: JL
authors.lastname: Wainright
authors.affiliation: Organ Procurement and Transplantation Network, Richmond, VA.|United Network for Organ Sharing, Richmond, VA.
authors.forename: G
authors.initials: G
authors.lastname: Boyle
authors.affiliation: Scientific Registry of Transplant Recipients, Minneapolis Medical Research Foundation, Minneapolis, MN.|Department of Epidemiology and Community Health, University of Minnesota, Minneapolis, MN.
authors.forename: J J
authors.initials: JJ
authors.lastname: Snyder
authors.affiliation: Department of Medicine, Hennepin County Medical Center, University of Minnesota, Minneapolis, MN.|Scientific Registry of Transplant Recipients, Minneapolis Medical Research Foundation, Minneapolis, MN.
authors.forename: B L
authors.initials: BL
authors.lastname: Kasiske
authors.affiliation: Department of Medicine, Hennepin County Medical Center, University of Minnesota, Minneapolis, MN.|Scientific Registry of Transplant Recipients, Minneapolis Medical Research Foundation, Minneapolis, MN.|Department of Epidemiology and Community Health, University of Minnesota, Minneapolis, MN.
authors.forename: A K
authors.initials: AK
authors.lastname: Israni
mesh_terms: D000293:Adolescent; D000328:Adult; D000368:Aged; D002648:Child; D002675:Child, Preschool; D003625:Data Collection; D006085:Graft Survival; D006801:Humans; D007166:Immunosuppressive Agents / Q000627:therapeutic use; D007223:Infant; D007676:Kidney Failure, Chronic / Q000453:epidemiology / Q000601:surgery*; D016030:Kidney Transplantation / Q000379:methods* / Q000706:statistics & numerical data*; D019520:Living Donors; D008875:Middle Aged; D017063:Outcome Assessment, Health Care; D012042:Registries; D014019:Tissue Donors; D009927:Tissue and Organ Procurement; D014481:United States; D014850:Waiting Lists; D055815:Young Adult
chemical_list: D007166:Immunosuppressive Agents
keywords: End-stage renal disease; kidney transplant; organ allocation; waiting list