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

Transplant centers in the United States are increasingly willing to transplant kidneys from hepatitis C virus (HCV)-infected (HCV+) donors into HCV− recipients. We studied the association between donor HCV infection status and kidney allograft function and posttransplantation allograft biopsy findings.