Donor-recipient gender and size mismatch affects graft success after kidney transplantation

J McGee, JH Magnus, TM Islam, BM Jaffe… - Journal of the American …, 2010 - Elsevier
BACKGROUND: Female recipients of male kidneys have an inferior graft survival, and
patients receiving larger kidneys relative to their body size may have a graft survival
advantage. Thus, graft survival may be affected by both gender and kidney size mismatches.
The objective of this study was to analyze the possible confounding effect of body mass
mismatch (body mass as proxy for kidney size) between female recipients of male donor
kidneys. STUDY DESIGN: A total of 668 kidney transplantations between 1996 and 2005 at …