The waiting list for kidney transplants far exceeds the pool of available donors. A significant population in the United States is living with end-stage renal disease (ESRD) yet many procured donor kidneys are not utilized. Significant renal stone disease has often been a relative contraindication to transplantation and a reason to discard these "high-risk" kidneys due to the possibility of post-transplant complications and suboptimal graft function. Salvaging these kidneys presents a chance to increase the availability of transplantable kidneys and assist with the critical shortage of organs.
