Transplantation

New transplantation research from J.M. Navarro and colleagues discussed

Published in Hospital Business Week, October 18th, 2009

"A retrospective study was performed in patients >60 years of age who had initiated hemodialysis (HD) at our hospital between 2000 and 2005 (n = 211). Of these, 47 were placed on the kidney transplantation waiting list and 164 were excluded and continued on HD," scientists writing in the journal Transplantation Proceedings report.

"Cadaveric transplantation was performed in 31 patients using an expanded criteria donor organ (TR), while 16 remained on the waiting list (WL). We compared the 12-month survivals of patients in the 3 groups (TR/WL/HD), namely, 97%/78%/75% (P < .045). Survival at 24, 36, 48, and 60 months for TR/HD were 89%/57%; 86%/43%; 79%/32%;...

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Source: Hospital Business Week (2009-10-18)

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