In the anguishing wait for a new kidney, tens of thousands of patients on waiting lists may never find a match because their immune systems will reject almost any transplanted organ. Now, in a large national study that experts are calling revolutionary, researchers have found a way to get them the desperately needed procedure.
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Ref: Survival Benefit with Kidney Transplants from HLA-Incompatible Live Donors. New England Journal of Medicine (10 March 2016) | DOI: 10.1056/NEJMoa1508380
