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. Author manuscript; available in PMC: 2016 Sep 10.
Published in final edited form as: N Engl J Med. 2016 Mar 10;374(10):940–950. doi: 10.1056/NEJMoa1508380

Table 4.

Kaplan–Meier Survival Estimates for Recipients of Kidney Transplants from Incompatible Live Donors and Matched Controls.*

Year Patients Who Survived
Recipients of Transplants from Incompatible Live Donors (N = 1025) Waiting-List-or-Transplant Control Group (N = 5125) Waiting-List-Only Control Group (N = 5125)
percent (95% confidence interval)
1 95.0 (93.5–96.2) 94.0 (93.3–94.6) 89.6 (88.8–90.4)

2 93.5 (91.8–94.8) 88.7 (87.8–89.5) 80.8 (79.7–81.8)

3 91.7 (89.8–93.2) 83.6 (82.5–84.6) 72.7 (71.5–73.9)

4 88.8 (86.7–90.6) 78.6 (77.4–79.7) 65.5 (64.2–66.8)

5 86.0 (83.6–88.0) 74.4 (73.1–75.6) 59.2 (57.8–60.6)

6 82.6 (80.0–85.0) 70.3 (69.0–71.6) 53.2 (51.7–54.6)

7 79.1 (76.1–81.7) 66.6 (65.1–67.9) 48.3 (46.8–49.8)

8 76.5 (73.3–79.3) 62.9 (61.4–64.4) 43.9 (42.3–45.4)
*

P<0.001 for the overall comparison of survival among recipients of transplants from incompatible live donors with survival in each of the control groups, on the basis of a Cox shared-frailty model.