HY incompatibility predicts short-term outcomes for kidney transplant recipients

SJ Kim, JS Gill - Journal of the American Society of Nephrology, 2009 - journals.lww.com
A recent report suggested that female recipients of male deceased-donor kidneys are at
increased risk for graft failure because of HY antigen mismatch. In an attempt to confirm and
extend these results, we studied all adult recipients of deceased-donor kidney transplants
from 1990 through 2004 in the US Renal Data System. Compared with all other gender
combinations, female recipients of male donor kidneys had a 12% increased risk for graft
failure at 1 yr (hazard ratio 1.12; 95% confidence interval 1.05 to 1.19) but no excess risk at …