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Kidney transplantation offers patients with end-stage renal disease a significant survival advantage as compared with dialysis.^1,2 Despite the success of kidney transplantation, however, fewer than 9000 cadaveric kidneys are transplanted each year in the United States, according to statistics from the United Network for Organ Sharing (UNOS).³ This is not due to an absence of need; more than 50,000 patients are waiting for a kidney transplant. Rather, it is due to the limited number of suitable kidneys that become available each year. UNOS estimates that about 2800 patients died during the year 2000 — an average of more than 7 . . . [Full Text of this Article]

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