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This article originally posted 24 May, 2010 and appeared in  Obesity, Issue 523, Transplantation

Weight 'key' in kidney transplant success

Weight 'key' in kidney transplant success: Matching up the weight of donors and recipients boosts success in kidney transplants, suggest French researchers. A study of over 1,000 transplant patients found those receiving a small kidney in proportion to their weight were more at risk of complications. In the Journal of the American Society of Nephrology, the researchers said the findings would give surgeons a new chance to improve long-term survival.
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This article originally posted 24 May, 2010 and appeared in  Obesity, Issue 523, Transplantation

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