Journal article
Initiating Maintenance Dialysis Before Living Kidney Donor Transplantation When a Donor Candidate Evaluation Is Well Underway
Abstract
BACKGROUND: Preemptive kidney transplants result in better outcomes and patient experiences than transplantation after dialysis onset. It is unknown how often a person initiates maintenance dialysis before living kidney donor transplantation when their donor candidate evaluation is well underway.
METHODS: Using healthcare databases, we retrospectively studied 478 living donor kidney transplants from 2004 to 2014 across 5 transplant centers in …
Authors
Habbous S; McArthur E; Dixon SN; McKenzie S; Garcia-Ochoa C; Lam NN; Lentine KL; Dipchand C; Litchfield K; Begen MA
Journal
Transplantation, Vol. 102, No. 7, pp. e345–e353
Publisher
Wolters Kluwer
Publication Date
July 2018
DOI
10.1097/tp.0000000000002159
ISSN
0041-1337