FUNCTIONAL INDEPENDENCE, ACCESS TO KIDNEY TRANSPLANTATION, AND WAITLIST MORTALITY

The migrated liver transplantation candidate: waitlist time affects mortality.

prolong biologic treatment in pediatric patients, we cannot make a generalized statement recommending early surgical treatment for these patients. An individualized decision made by the pediatric gastroenterologist, surgeon, patient, and parents of the patient is critical. At the same time, their study can be used as a reference to bring up an intellectual discussion for parents to understand t...

Health literacy and access to kidney transplantation.

BACKGROUND AND OBJECTIVES Few studies have examined health literacy in patients with end stage kidney disease. We hypothesized that inadequate health literacy in a hemodialysis population is common and is associated with poorer access to kidney transplant wait-lists. DESIGN, SETTING, PARTICIPANTS, & MEASUREMENTS We enrolled 62 Black and White maintenance hemodialysis patients aged 18 to 75. W...

Racial Differences in Access to Kidney Transplantation

Previous work has documented large differences between black and white populations in overall kidney transplantation rates and in transplantation waiting times. This article examines access to transplantation using three measures: time from renal failure to transplant; time from renal failure to wait listing; and time from wait listing to transplantation. This study concludes the following Firs...

Unequal racial access to kidney transplantation.

Mortality in Kidney Transplantation

It’s a retrospective study whose aim was to evaluate the incidence and the mortality in a population including 329 patients who received first kidney transplants from a living donor in 269 cases and cadaveric donor in 60 cases at Internal Medicine A department between June 1986 and December 2003. Aetiologies of mortality in our kidney transplant recipients were determined. There were 157 males ...