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Kidney Transplants

Studies from Seoul National University College of Medicine in the Area of Kidney Transplants Published

Published in Blood Weekly, September 8th, 2011

2011 SEP 8 -- Investigators publish new data in the report "Graft volume as the surrogate marker for nephron number affects the outcomes of living-donor kidney transplantation. 'Post-transplant outcome of kidney allografts depends on various factors, one of which may be the compatibility in volume between graft and recipient. However, previous studies adjusted the graft volume only for recipient's size," scientists in Seoul, South Korea report.

"As the adjusted graft volume for donor's size would be substituted of nephron number more accurately, we adjusted the graft volume for both recipient's and donor's sizes. In 351 cases of living-donor kidney...

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