The success of the transplantation depends on many factors. These include, inter alia, the appropriate selection of donor age, compliance within HLA, degree of sensitization – anti-leucocyte antibodies level, primary disease causing the need of kidney replacement therapy, state of the other organs and coexisting diseases. No less important are the other donor-dependent factors, time of the cold ischemia, ischemia-reperfusion injury and a number of immunological and genetic factors. Read full text »