Molnar MZ, Azhar A, Tsujita M, et al. - In the United States, transplant centers are more and more intending to transplant kidneys from hepatitis C (HCV) infected donors into hepatitis C negative recipients. Via performing this retrospective cohort study, researchers sought to report on kidney allograft function and post-transplant allograft biopsy findings in association with HCV infected donor status. They assessed a total of 65 HCV negative recipients who were transplanted with a kidney from a HCV infected donor (HCV+) and 59 HCV negative recipients who were transplanted with a kidney from a donor without HCV infection (HCV-). Findings revealed that kidney allograft function and probability of rejection in the first year after transplantation were similar among recipients of kidneys from donors infected with HCV vs those who received kidneys from donors without HCV infection.