Smoking history of living kidney donors linked to higher transplant complications
UC Davis Health research has found that people who received a kidney from a living donor with a history of smoking face a higher risk of transplant failure. Transplant failure, known as graft loss, occurs when the transplanted kidney permanently stops working. The highest risk was among patients whose donors had a substantial smoking history.
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