More than 28 years have passed since Al-Hasani et al 1 first reported on the reuse of a
kidney allograft. However, there are still few long-term follow-up data regarding such reuse.
2-4 In July 2007, we reported in AJKD a case of successful kidney allograft reuse from a
deceased kidney transplant recipient. 5 The first recipient of the transplanted kidney
survived 6 years with good kidney function, but in April 2003 experienced an intracranial
hemorrhage and was pronounced brain dead in our hospital. A 24-year-old man who had …