Every Kidney Counts

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It is time to expand procedures that will improve the success rates for cadaveric renal allografts, not just for 1 to 2 years but for 10 to 30 years. The number of human kidneys available for transplantation is extremely limited, and there is no ethically acceptable repository that can suddenly be tapped to improve the terrible imbalance between supply and demand. Every kidney counts. Patients who receive cadaveric renal allografts should be given the opportunity to achieve today's best rates of success: 80 percent of the grafts should survive for 5 to 10 years and 60 percent for 10 to . . .

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