The UK kidney donor risk index poorly predicts long-term transplant survival in paediatric kidney transplant recipients

The UK kidney donor risk index poorly predicts long-term transplant survival in paediatric kidney transplant recipients

BackgroundThe UK kidney offering scheme introduced a kidney donor risk index (UK-KDRI) to improve the utility of deceased-donor kidney allocations. The UK-KDRI was derived using adult donor and recipient data. We assessed this in a paediatric cohort from the UK transplant registry.MethodsWe performe...

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Main Authors: Jon Jin Kim, Rebecca M. K. Curtis, Ben Reynolds, Stephen D. Marks, Martin Drage, Vasilis Kosmoliaptsis, Jan Dudley, Alun Williams
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Frontiers Media S.A. 2023-06-01
Series:Frontiers in Immunology
Subjects:
paediatric kidney transplantation
kidney allocation
donor quality
donor age
donor risk index
HLA mismatching
Online Access:https://www.frontiersin.org/articles/10.3389/fimmu.2023.1207145/full

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