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Journal of the American Society of Nephrology • Vol 31 • No 2
Kidney Structural Features from Living Donors Predict Graft Failure in the Recipient
January 2020 • Naim Issa, Camden Lopez, Aleksandar Đenić, Sandra J. Taler, Joseph J. Larson, Walter K. Kremers, Luisa Ricaurte, Massini Merzkani, Mariam P. Alexande…
Significance Statement The quality of a kidney obtained from a living donor is often inferred from the donor’s age, risk factors, and kidney function. Little is known about the influence of a donated kidney’s structural features on the risk of death-censored graft failure in the recipient. In an analysis of 2293 kidney donor-recipient pairs, the authors identified subclinical nephrosclerosis, larger nephron size (but not nephron number), and smaller medullary volume as structural predictors of death-censored graft…
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Kidney
Urology
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