Preemptive renal transplant candidate survival, access to care, and renal function at listing
Author(s) -
R. B. Fissell,
Titte R. Srinivas,
Richard Fatica,
Joseph V. Nally,
Sankar D. Navaneethan,
Emilio D. Poggio,
David A. Goldfarb,
Jesse D. Schold
Publication year - 2012
Publication title -
nephrology dialysis transplantation
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 1.654
H-Index - 168
eISSN - 1460-2385
pISSN - 0931-0509
DOI - 10.1093/ndt/gfs012
Subject(s) - medicine , renal transplant , renal function , listing (finance) , intensive care medicine , transplantation , finance , economics
Preemptive transplantation is associated with better survival and transplant outcomes than transplantation after dialysis has been started. The purpose of this study is to examine associations between candidate characteristics, likelihood of preemptive transplant, candidate survival and renal function (RF) at the time of listing.
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