Comment on “End staged renal disease after pediatric heart transplantation: A 25-year national cohort study”

Choudhry et al1 review the prevalence, risk factors, and outcomes associated with end stage renal disease (ESRD) after pediatric heart transplant (HTx). End stage renal disease defined as need for chronic dialysis and or kidney transplantation,2 is a recognized morbidity after pediatric Htx which can limited the survival. They combined 2 Federally-mandated national databases (Scientific Registry of Transplant Recipients data3 were linked, via direct identifiers, to the United States Renal Data System)4 to identify patients who were
Source: The Journal of Heart and Lung Transplantation - Category: Transplant Surgery Authors: Source Type: research