Survival Benefit with Kidney Transplants from HLA-Incompatible Live Donors

Babak J Orandi¹, Xun Luo¹, Allan B Massie¹+30

• ¹From the Department of Surgery, Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine, Baltimore (B.J.O., X.L., A.B.M., B.E.L., R.A., K.J.V.A., R.A.M., D.L. Segev); the Department of Surgery, Barnes-Jewish Hospital, St. Louis (J.M.G.-W., J.W.); the Department of Surgery, Mayo Clinic, Rochester (M.D.S.), and the Department of Surgery, University of Minnesota, Minneapolis (T.B.D.) - both in Minnesota; the Department of Medicine, Cedars-Sinai Comprehensive Transplant Center, Los Angeles (S.C.J.), the Department of Surgery, University of California,San Francisco, San Francisco (J.P.R.), the Department of Surgery, Stanford University, Palo Alto (M.L.M.), and the Department of Surgery, Scripps Clinic and Green Hospital, La Jolla (C.L.M.) - all in California; the Department of Surgery, University of Illinois-Chicago, Chicago (J.O.); the Department of Surgery, Columbia University Medical Center (L.E.R.), and the Department of Surgery, New York Presbyterian-Weill Cornell Medical Center (S.K.) - both in New York; the Department of Surgery, Ohio State University, Columbus (R.P.P.), the Department of Urology, University of Toledo Medical Center, Toledo (M.A.R.), and the Department of Urology, Cleveland Clinic, Cleveland (B.R.S.) - all in Ohio; the Department of Medicine, Thomas Jefferson University Hospital, Philadelphia (P.S.); the Department of Surgery, University of Pittsburgh Medical Center, Pittsburgh (R.S.); the Department of Surgery, Duke University Medical Center, Durham (D.L. Sudan), and the Department of Surgery, University of North Carolina School of Medicine, Chapel Hill (D.A.G.) - both in North Carolina; the Department of Surgery, Virginia Commonwealth University, Richmond (M.P.P.); Integris Baptist Medical Center, Transplant Division, Oklahoma City (J.M.E.-A.); Medstar Georgetown Transplant Institute, Washington, DC (M.C.); the Department of Surgery, Baystate Medical Center, Springfield (G.S.L.), and the Department of Surgery, University of Massachusetts Memorial Medical Ce