Current Kidney Transplant Policies Disadvantage Certain Adolescents, Young Adults
Justin Steggerda, MD Credit: Cedars-Sinai New research is shedding light on inequities posed by the “pediatric advantage” of current kidney transplant allocation policies, which disadvantage patients who initiated dialysis as children but were not waitlisted until after 18 years of age.1 Leveraging waitlist registration and transplant outcome data from the OPTN Standard Transplant and Research … Read more