As a result, the long-term outcomes after kidney transplantation have not substantially improved over 2 decades: approximately 4-5% of renal grafts are lost annually beyond the 1st year after transplantation, mainly because of late forms of immune-mediated injury (often referred to as chronic rejection) [12,14].
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