Peter Attia· MD
in the 1960s and 70s if you look at some of the published series there were mortality rates mortality rates meaning the patient died after kidney transplantation of 50 60 even 70 percent so it's not only that they lost their graft but the consequences of the operation the immunosuppression subsequent usually infections you know was was uh making these procedures highly morbid and and unsuccessful at least at rates that we would think of as acceptable now