Inset: John Bynon Jr. Background: Memorial Hermann Health System’s Texas Medical Center in Houston, where John Bynon Jr. allegedly falsified medical records to make potential transplant recipients ineligible for organ …
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Kidney Transplantation
Risk-Based Criteria May Improve Equity and Outcomes in Kidney Transplant Wait-Listing
by News Sourceby News SourceA move toward using kidney failure risk, rather than a single measurement of kidney function, may help improve patient outcomes and reduce racial disparities in access to kidney transplantation, according …
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Kidney Transplantation
Expanding the waitlisting criteria for kidney transplantation could improve patient outcomes
by News Sourceby News SourceThe current kidney transplant waitlisting criterion is based on a single measurement of kidney function (estimated glomerular filtration rate [eGFR] ≤20 ml/min/1.73m2) and does not consider an individual’s risk of …
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What are the criteria for getting placed on the liver transplant waiting list? The criteria to be on the liver transplant waiting list are: Have acute or chronic liver failure. …