Kidney Transplant Recipients With Rheumatic Diseases: Epidemiological Data From the Polish Transplant Registries 1998-2015

Our study showed that systemic lupus erythematosus and systemic vasculitides are the major rheumatic causes of ESRD in the Polish population. Long-term graft and recipient survival were significantly better in the nonrheumatic versus the rheumatic group in the Poltransplant cohort.