Careful patient selection combined with skilled cannulation minimizes complications. Higher-risk procedures should be performed in specialist centers.

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Despite being associated with poor initial graft function, the long-term allograft survival of NHBD kidneys does not differ significantly from the results of HBD and LD transplants.

All three needle sizes are safe for use in renal allograft biopsy using a semiautomated biopsy gun. The larger needles provide more tissue and glomeruli and, thus, are more diagnostically useful. Use of a 14G needle may be associated with more pain, and the 16G needle appears to offer the best compromise between diagnostic usefulness and patient acceptability.