Immigrant children receive fewer pre-emptive and living donor transplantations compared to native children. After transplantation, immigrant children are at higher risk for acute rejection irrespective of the mode of transplantation.
Tromp, W. F., Cransberg, K., van der Lee, J. H., Bouts, A. H., Collard, L., Van Damme-Lombaerts, R., Godefroid, N., Van Hoeck, K. J., Koster-Kamphuis, L., Lilien, M. R., Raes, A., Ranguelov, N., & Groothoff, J. W. (2012). Fewer pre-emptive renal transplantations and more rejections in immigrant children compared to native Dutch and Belgian children. Nephrology, Dialysis, Transplantation, 27(6), 2588-2593. https://doi.org/10.1093/ndt/gfr628 (Original work published 2012)