Kidney transplant results in children: progress made, but blacks lag behind.
Early kidney transplant results in children lagged behind corresponding results in adults. Multiple advances over the past three decades have eliminated that gap. Most children now have equal or superior long-term allograft and patient survival compared with adult recipients. However, black children in the United States continue to have allograft survival results inferior to those of non-black children, even after extensive adjustments for socioeconomic status and access to transplantation.
Division of Pediatric Nephrology, Washington University School of Medicine and St Louis Children's Hospital, St Louis, Missouri, USA.
Vikas R
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Dharnidharka
1] Division of Pediatric Nephrology, Washington University School of Medicine and St Louis Children's Hospital, St Louis, Missouri, USA [2] Department of Pediatrics, Southern Illinois University School of Medicine, Springfield, Illinois, USA.
Michael E
ME
Seifert
D001741:Black or African American / Q000706:statistics & numerical data*; D005260:Female; D006084:Graft Rejection / Q000208:ethnology* / Q000401:mortality*; D006085:Graft Survival; D054624:Health Status Disparities; D006630:Hispanic or Latino / Q000706:statistics & numerical data*; D006801:Humans; D007676:Kidney Failure, Chronic / Q000401:mortality*; D016030:Kidney Transplantation / Q000401:mortality* / Q000706:statistics & numerical data*; D008297:Male; D015996:Survival Rate / Q000639:trends*; D044465:White People / Q000706:statistics & numerical data*