Successful kidney transplantation despite tissue incompatibility, German study finds
Wednesday, October 13, 2010 - 15:31
in Health & Medicine
Donor kidneys can be successfully transplanted even if there is strong tissue incompatibility between donor and recipient. Researchers in Germany show in a study of 34 sensitized high-risk patients that the success rate in these patients was not different from the success rate of patients with a low immunological risk.