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The excellent results of spousal kidney transplantation: experience in a Japanese single center
- Source :
- Transplantation proceedings. 40(7)
- Publication Year :
- 2008
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Abstract
- In coping with the shortage of deceased kidney donors, living donor kidney transplantation is mainly performed in Japan. We started our living unrelated spousal kidney transplantation program in 1989. In this analysis, we compared the results of 64 spousal transplantations performed between September 1989 and May 2007 with those of living related and deceased donor grafts. Despite the older age of the recipients and the lower HLA matching, the graft survival rates of spousal transplants were as good as those from living related donors and better than those from deceased donors, (P < .01). The graft survival rate of spousal kidney transplantation is improving with advances in immunosuppression, so spouses are considered important donors in Japan, which lacks deceased donors.
- Subjects :
- Male
medicine.medical_specialty
medicine.medical_treatment
Urinary system
Histocompatibility Testing
Single Center
Living donor
Nephrectomy
Japan
HLA Antigens
Internal medicine
Cadaver
Living Donors
Medicine
Humans
Spouses
Kidney transplantation
Transplantation
business.industry
Graft Survival
Immunosuppression
social sciences
medicine.disease
Kidney Transplantation
Tissue Donors
Surgery
surgical procedures, operative
Treatment Outcome
behavior and behavior mechanisms
Tissue and Organ Harvesting
Graft survival
Female
business
Immunosuppressive Agents
Subjects
Details
- ISSN :
- 00411345
- Volume :
- 40
- Issue :
- 7
- Database :
- OpenAIRE
- Journal :
- Transplantation proceedings
- Accession number :
- edsair.doi.dedup.....97f88958179834d59b135081702c4504