The first successful living-donor kidney transplant was performed 50 yr ago. Since then, in a
relatively brief period of medical history, living kidney transplantation has become the …

Background ABO-incompatible renal transplantation (ABOi-rTx) is increasingly used to
overcome organ shortage. Evidence about its non-inferiority in comparison with ABO …

Abstract The 2017 Kidney Disease: Improving Global Outcomes (KDIGO) Clinical Practice
Guideline on the Evaluation and Care of Living Kidney Donors is intended to assist medical …

Background. ABO incompatible (ABOi) kidney transplantation is an important modality to
facilitate living donor transplant for incompatible pairs. To date, reports of the outcomes from …

ABO incompatible kidney transplantations have previously only been performed after
several preoperative sessions of plasmapheresis and splenectomy, with the conventional …

Background Reports from experienced centers suggest that recipients of an ABO-
incompatible living-donor kidney transplant after reduction of ABO antibodies experience no …

The majority of preconditioning protocols developed to allow ABO-incompatible (ABOi) renal
transplantation include concurrent splenectomy as a prerequisite to successful engraftment …

Kidney Disease: Improving Global Outcomes (KDIGO) engaged an evidence review team
and convened a work group to produce a guideline to evaluate and manage candidates for …

Many patients who have an otherwise acceptable living‐kidney donor do not undergo
transplantation because of the presence of antibodies against the donor cells resulting in a …

Background. A new protocol for ABO-incompatible kidney transplantation has recently been
introduced. We report here on the joint experience of the implementation in Stockholm and …