October 2013: Volume 2, Issue 8
Update: 2013-10-24
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In this podcast guest author Dorry Segev, MD, Associate Professor of Surgery and Epidemiology at the Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine, discusses updates in transplantation for patients with chronic kidney disease. He will focus on the factors affecting the eligibility of older adults with CKD for kidney transplantation; explaining the clinical decision-making process for patients on the kidney transplant waiting list who are offered CDC infectious-risk donor organs; and compare treatment options available to sensitized patients with a healthy and willing but incompatible live kidney donor.
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