Access to kidney transplantation in France of non-French patients and French patients living in overseas territories.

Background: In France, foreign patients, whether resident or not in France, can register on the national waiting list under certain conditions. We compared waiting time to kidney transplantation, the level of HLA matching and graft cold ischemia time between foreign patients and French patients living in mainland France or in French overseas territories (FOT).

Methods: We performed a retrospective cohort survey using the nationwide registry.