Kidney Transplantation: New Strategies for Longer Organ Preservation

May 30, 2017

(Science Daily) – New treatment strategies over the last few decades have meant that nowadays 95% of transplanted kidneys function well for at least one year and that the average lifespan of a transplanted organ is between 10 and 15 years. In 1989, one in five kidneys was no longer functional after one year. This is one of the central findings of a review that leading journal “The Lancet” invited Reiner Oberbauer to undertake on the current status of research in this area.