Survival and transplant outcomes among young children requiring kidney replacement therapy.

Nicholas G LarkinsGermaine WongStephen I AlexanderStephen McDonaldChanel PrestidgeAnna FrancisAmelia K Le PageWai H Lim

Published in: Pediatric nephrology (Berlin, Germany) (2021)

Young children commencing KRT have good long-term survival and graft outcomes. Early graft loss is no reason to postpone transplantation beyond 10 kg, and among even the youngest recipients, late graft loss risk in adolescence remains one of the greatest barriers to improving long-term outcomes.

Keyphrases

replacement therapy
smoking cessation

metabolic syndrome
mesenchymal stem cells

kidney transplantation

insulin resistance