Survival of patients with a living donor kidney (top), a deceased donor kidney (second from top), on the waitlist while on dialysis (second from bottom), and while on dialysis but not waitlisted for a kidney transplant (bottom). Approximately 45% of patients receiving chronic dialysis while on the waitlist for a deceased human donor kidney either die or are removed from the waitlist (as considered no longer acceptable candidates for the procedure) within 5 years. (Reproduced with permission from Jagdale A, et al, Transplantation. 2021;105:1904–1908, reference 44)