Kidney Transplants

Study results from Hosp University provide new insights into kidney transplants

Published in Blood Weekly, May 20th, 2010

According to recent research from Malaga, Spain, "The rate of acute rejection (AR) has decreased significantly, but whether this is associated with improvement in long-term graft survival is controversial. We analyzed 1445 consecutive adult deceased donor kidney transplant recipients from 1985 to 2005, over two periods (1985-1995 vs. 1996-2005) to compare long-term graft survival."

"The second period was associated with older donors and recipients and a reduction in AR. A significant increase of 10.1 months at 11 years was seen in death-censored graft survival in 1996 to 2005. For this posttransplant time, graft half-life was 10.8 years in 1985 to 1995, while at this...

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Source: Blood Weekly (2010-05-20)

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