Journal article
Helping More Patients Receive a Living Donor Kidney Transplant
Abstract
The best treatment option for many patients with kidney failure is a kidney transplant from a living donor. Countries that successfully increase their rate of living kidney donation will decrease their reliance on dialysis, the most expensive and high-risk form of kidney replacement therapy. Outlined here are some barriers that prevent some patients from pursuing living kidney donation and current knowledge on some potential solutions to these …
Authors
Garg AX
Journal
Clinical Journal of the American Society of Nephrology, Vol. 13, No. 12, pp. 1918–1923
Publisher
Wolters Kluwer
Publication Date
December 2018
DOI
10.2215/cjn.00760118
ISSN
1555-9041