Smoking-does it 'burn' the kidney transplant?

摘要

In this issue of the American Journal of Kidney Diseases, Nogueira et al examine the association between cigarette smoking and transplant outcomes in recipients of a living donor kidney transplant. Smokers, categorized as previous smokers, current smokers, and combined previous and current smokers (referred to as ever smokers), were compared with recipients who never smoked (referred to as never smokers). Both transplant and patient survival in ever smokers were lower than in never smokers, whereas transplant loss was significantly higher in current smokers and marginally higher in previous smokers compared with never smokers.