Female Kidney Transplant Recipients Are More Likely To Reject Male Donor Organs

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Female Kidney Transplant Recipients Are More Likely To Reject Male Donor Organs

SOURCE: Medical News Today

DATE: July 5, 2008

EXCERPT: "New research published in The Lancet suggests that sex-matching kidney donors and recipients may result in better outcomes. The report finds that when females receive a male donor kidney, they have higher rates of graft failure compared to the other three combinations of donor and recipient. These findings imply that future studies and decisions about organ donations should take sex into consideration." more