“…Nonetheless, since it has been established that renal transplantation is the treatment of choice for ESRD and that longer dialysis time negatively impacts survival of both patients and graft, it is important to perform renal transplantation as early as possible (23,24). In cases that are provided with the option of living-donor transplantation, the performance of the simultaneous procedure could be of benefit (3,9,(11)(12)(13)25).…”