Effects of Donor-Recipient Race Matching on Kidney Transplant Survival

03 June 2025 : Original article

Marie Chisholm-Burns

^{ABDEF 1*}, Christina Spivey

^{ABCDEF 1}, Richard Formica^{ADEF 2}

DOI: 10.12659/AOT.947720

Ann Transplant 2025; 30:e947720

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Table 4 Patient survival outcomes (n=3) [2,25,26].

Study	Reference group (D/R pairing)	D/R pairing	Patient survival or mortality outcome, D/R pairing vs reference group
LeClaire et al 2021 []²	White-White	Mismatched-White	NS [HR: 1.024 (95% CI 0.973–1.078), p=.368]
LeClaire et al 2021 []²	Black-Black	Mismatched-Black	NS [HR: 1.056 (95% CI 0.999–1.116), p=.056]
Opelz et al 1977 []²⁵	N/A	N/A	Statistical association described as being independent of recipient’s race
Perdue & Terasaki 1982 []²⁶	White-White	White-Black	Patient survival rates “were essentially the same” (NS) but rates for the White-Black D/R pairing were “somewhat lower” than rates for White recipients. No p values reported
D/R – donor-recipient; HR – hazard ratio; NS – not significant; RR – risk ratio. ^a Caveat: Study did not specify if patient population included pediatrics.

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