Conference
Living Kidney Donors Requiring Transplantation: Focus on African Americans
Abstract
Risks of kidney donation include a poorly characterized risk of late kidney failure. We hypothesized that African Americans (AA) kidney donors were at greater risk for kidney failure. The United Network for Organ Sharing/Organ Procurement Transplantation Network database was searched for patients who previously donated a kidney and were subsequently placed on the kidney transplant waiting list. We then compared the race of donors listed for …
Authors
Gibney EM; King AL; Maluf DG; Garg AX; Parikh CR
Volume
84
Pagination
pp. 647-649
Publisher
Wolters Kluwer
Publication Date
September 15, 2007
DOI
10.1097/01.tp.0000277288.78771.c2
Conference proceedings
Transplantation
Issue
5
ISSN
0041-1337