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SUBMITTER: Kim SJ
PROVIDER: S-EPMC2736773 | biostudies-literature | 2009 Sep
REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature
Kim S Joseph SJ Gill John S JS
Journal of the American Society of Nephrology : JASN 20090618 9
A recent report suggested that female recipients of male deceased-donor kidneys are at increased risk for graft failure because of H-Y antigen mismatch. In an attempt to confirm and extend these results, we studied all adult recipients of deceased-donor kidney transplants from 1990 through 2004 in the US Renal Data System. Compared with all other gender combinations, female recipients of male donor kidneys had a 12% increased risk for graft failure at 1 yr (hazard ratio 1.12; 95% confidence inte ...[more]