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Overcoming the Body Mass Index as a Barrier in Kidney Transplantation

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https://doi.org/10.1111/ajt.13367Creative Commons 'BY' version 4.0 license
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The authors comment on the findings of Krishnan et al (page 2378) that obese dialysis patients with a high BMI who undergo kidney transplantation achieve several-fold improvement in survival, and they argue that BMI restrictions for kidney transplantation should be reconsidered.

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