Risk factors and outcomes of BK viremia among deceased donor kidney transplant recipients based on donor characteristics.

Isabel BreyerBan DodinArjang Djamali Margaret R Jorgenson Neetika Garg Fahad AzizMaha A MohamedDidier A Mandelbrot Sandesh Parajuli

Published in: Transplant infectious disease : an official journal of the Transplantation Society (2021)

Our study suggests lower donor BMI is associated with BKV infection, and concordance or discordance between paired kidney recipients is not associated with poor outcomes.

Keyphrases

risk factors
kidney transplantation
type diabetes
adipose tissue
physical activity
skeletal muscle
glycemic control