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. 2021 Aug 19;2(11):1836-1839.
doi: 10.34067/KID.0002472021. eCollection 2021 Nov 25.

Global Perspective on Kidney Transplantation: United States

Jeffrey H Wang  1   2 , Allyson Hart  1   2
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Global Perspective on Kidney Transplantation: United States

Jeffrey H Wang et al. Kidney360. .
No abstract available

Keywords: United States; kidney transplant; transplantation; waitlist.

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Conflict of interest statement

A. Hart reports receiving research funding from CSL Behring. The remaining author has nothing to disclose.

Figures

Figure 1.
Figure 1.
All adult and pediatric United States kidney transplant recipients, including retransplant and multiorgan.
Figure 2.
Figure 2.
Unadjusted death-censored allograft survival among living donor (A) and deceased donor (B) United States adult kidney transplant recipients; unadjusted patient survival by donor type (C).
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