Renal Transplantation in Advanced Chronic Kidney Disease Patients

Mythili Ghanta; Belinda Jim

doi:10.1016/j.mcna.2015.12.003

Renal Transplantation in Advanced Chronic Kidney Disease Patients

Mythili Ghanta, Belinda Jim

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Abstract

Kidney transplantation is the best option for patients with end-stage kidney disease. It is associated with better quality of life, lower medical costs, less hospitalization, and improved survival compared with wait-listed patients who remain on dialysis. Timely referral for transplantation is essential to reap the maximal benefit and should begin in the advanced chronic kidney disease stage prior to starting dialysis. Shortage of donor organs remains the biggest challenge to transplantation. With the improved success of kidney transplantation, candidate acceptance criteria continue to broaden. This article provides an overview of the pretransplantation multidisciplinary evaluation process detailing the factors that determine transplant candidacy.

Original language	English (US)
Pages (from-to)	465-476
Number of pages	12
Journal	Medical Clinics of North America
Volume	100
Issue number	3
DOIs	https://doi.org/10.1016/j.mcna.2015.12.003
State	Published - May 1 2016

Keywords

Factors affecting transplant candidacy
Kidney transplant
New kidney allocation system
Pretransplantation evaluation process
Wait times
Wait-list mortality

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Medicine(all)

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