Comparison of outcomes after living and deceased donor kidney transplantation: UK national cohort study.

ABSTRACT:

Background

Most kidneys for transplantation come from deceased donors, though healthy live individuals may also donate. Living donor transplants generally show better outcomes than deceased donor transplants, but it is unclear whether this reflects inherent benefits of having a living donor kidney or differences in donor and recipient characteristics. Using data from 10 915 UK kidney-only transplants, the aim of this study was to determine the causal effect of living donors on graft survival, considering all-cause death without graft failure as a competing risk.

Methods

This study used inverse probability of treatment weighting based on propensity scores to adjust for imbalances in baseline variables between recipients of living and deceased donor kidneys implanted between 2

SUBMITTER: Murray J 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC12362070 | biostudies-literature | 2025 Aug

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature