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Renal transplantation as the treatment of choice for end-stage renal failure is associated with excellent short-term results. The 1-year patient-survival rate is 96%, and the 1-year allograft-survival rate is more than 90%. Although the 5-year patient-survival rate after renal transplantation remains at about 90%, there is a steady attrition of allografts because of long-term rejection, which limits the 5-year allograft-survival rate to about 80%.¹

In the more than half century since the first clinical renal transplantations in the early 1950s, the procedure has become standard practice. There has been steady progress in allograft survival since the development of proper HLA . . . [Full Text of this Article]

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From the Institute for Clinical Transfusion Medicine and Immunogenetics, and the Institute for Transfusion Medicine, University Hospital — both in Ulm, Germany.

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• El-Sayegh, S., Sayegh, M. H., Bennett, W. M. (2008). Renal Transplantation: What's New?. CJASN 3: 938-940 [Full Text]