Kidney Transplant (KT) is the best treatment for patients with end-stage renal disease (ESRD). Unfortunately, it is not available to every patient with ESRD, and this is mainly due to the increasing number of patients in the waiting list and the shortage of kidneys suitable for transplantation. This fact is a major problem, even in countries with the highest rate of deceased donors in the world...

The numbers are all too familiar, and are repeated so often in the arena of kidney disease that they start to lose meaning, becoming slightly hollow, empty, and spokenwith a feeling of resignation. There are.90,000 people on the kidney transplant waiting list and this number is growing. The number of kidney transplants performed annually is only one-fifth of the waiting list overall. The mortal...

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