Kidney transplants not as successful among teens By Genevra Pittman NEW YORK (Reuters Health) - Teenagers who undergo a kidney transplant are more likely to have their new organ stop working within a few years than both younger and older recipients, according to a new study. Researchers analyzed data on 169,000 kidney transplant recipients and found 14- to 16-year-olds had the highest risk of so-called graft loss starting one year after their ...
July 30, 2013 - Reuters via Yahoo! News
Study finds teens have higher risk of organ failure than other kidney transplant patients NEW YORK (Reuters Health) - Teenagers who undergo a kidney transplant are more likely to have their new organ stop working within a few years than both younger and older recipients, according to a new study. Researchers analyzed data on 169,000 kidney...
July 30, 2013 - MedCity News