Influence of Deceased Donor and Pretransplant Recipient Parameters on Early Overall Kidney Graft-Survival in Germany

Background. Scarcity of grafts for kidney transplantation (KTX) caused an increased consideration of deceased donors with substantial risk factors. There is no agreement on which ones are detrimental for overall graft-survival. Therefore, we investigated in a nationwide multicentre study the impact...

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Main Authors: Carl-Ludwig Fischer-Fröhlich, Marcus Kutschmann, Johanna Feindt, Irene Schmidtmann, Günter Kirste, Nils R. Frühauf, Ulrike Wirges, Axel Rahmel, Christina Schleicher
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Hindawi Limited 2015-01-01
Series:Journal of Transplantation
Online Access:http://dx.doi.org/10.1155/2015/307230