University Hospital Heidelberg

Male kidneys for men only?

Published in Immunotherapy Weekly, August 6th, 2008

The gender of donor and recipient plays a larger role in kidney transplants than previously assumed. Female donor kidneys do not function as well in men – due to their smaller size. Women have a higher risk of rejecting a male donor kidney. Therefore, in the future, gender should be considered more in the allocation of donor kidneys, say researchers from Basel and Heidelberg.

These results are based on an analysis of the "Collaborative Transplant Study", the world's largest database with long-term results of organ transplants under the leadership of Professor Dr. Gerhard Opelz, Medical Director of the Department of Transplantation Immunology at the Institute of...

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Source: Immunotherapy Weekly (2008-08-06)

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