Comparing survival after transplantation with survival on dialysis: Net benefit or a way to identify healthier patients?

Transplantation

Volumn 82, Issue 5, 2006, Pages 619-620

  Cecka, J Michael ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CHRONIC KIDNEY DISEASE; COMORBIDITY; DEATH; DIABETES MELLITUS; GRAFT FAILURE; GRAFT RECIPIENT; HEMODIALYSIS; HUMAN; KIDNEY TRANSPLANTATION; NOTE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROGNOSIS; RETRANSPLANTATION; STATISTICAL ANALYSIS; SURVIVAL;

HUMANS; KIDNEY TRANSPLANTATION; RENAL REPLACEMENT THERAPY; REOPERATION;

EID: 33748702475     PISSN: 00411337     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1097/01.tp.0000235435.82445.e8     Document Type: Note

References (3)

1. Rao PS, Schaubel DE, Wei G, Fenton SSA. Evaluating the survival benefit of kidney retransplantation. Transplantation 2006; 82: 669.
2. Wolfe RA, Ashby VB, Milford EL, et al. Comparison of mortality in all patients on dialysis, patients on dialysis awaiting transplantation and recipients of a first cadaveric transplant. N Engl J Med 1999; 341: 1725.
3. Organ Procurement and Transportation Network. Available at: http://www.optn.org/latestData/rptData.asp. Accessed 5 June 2006.