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Medical Views: Living Donor Kidney Recipients

Living Donor Kidney Recipients: Patient Survival Rates

Relation of Donor to Recipient	Number	3-Year Survival	5-Year Survival
Parent	5,434	96.3	94.5
Child	3,428	89.3	82.0
Sibling	10,785	95.6	92.5
Relative	1,040	95.2	92.0
Spouse	1,647	93.0	85.0
Unrelated	916	94.1	87.2
Unknown	1,842	N/C	N/C
Total Living Donors	25,092	94.6	91.0
Total Cadaver Donors	56,352	88.9	81.8

Living Donor Kidney Recipients: Transplanted Kidney Survival Rates

Relation of Donor to Recipient	Number	3-Year Survival	5-Year Survival
Parent	5,434	85.8	76.4
Child	3,428	83.9	74.2
Sibling	10,785	88.9	81.4
Relative	1,040	86.7	77.2
Spouse	1,647	85.4	74.3
Unrelated	916	87.8	76.8
Unknown	1,842	N/C	N/C
Total Living Donors	25,092	87.0	78.4
Total Cadaver Donors	56,352	76.3	64.7

N/C indicates not calculated

Number denotes the overall number of transplants from January 1990 through December 1998 for which a survival time could be determined

UNOS OPTN Data as of September 5, 2000.

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