Transplantation of Kidneys From Hepatitis C Virus–Infected Donors to Hepatitis C Virus–Negative Recipients: One-Year Kidney Allograft Outcomes

Transplant centers are increasingly willing to transplant kidneys from hepatitis C (HCV) infected donors to HCV negative recipients. Data on the long-term outcomes following these recipients are sparse. The aim of our single center, retrospective study was to compare 1-year kidney outcomes in HCV negative transplant recipients who received an organ either from a donor with or without HCV infection. The 1-year post-transplant kidney outcomes (including allograft function, development of de novo donor specific antibodies, findings on for-cause and surveillance protocol graft biopsies) were similar in these two groups of recipients.