Science news articles about 'kidney transplant waiting list'

... found that black patients were less likely than whites to be placed on the kidney transplant waiting list, and this disparity was not associated with the distance to the nearest transplant center. ...

... or decreased pumping of the heart—poses an increased risk of death for patients on kidney transplant waiting lists, according to a study appearing in the June 2008 issue of the Journal of the American ...

... patients with ESRD comprise more than a third of the kidney transplant waiting list but are 2.7 times ... 2006. Among black patients, those who received kidneys from black cardiac death donors had better ...

... for a kidney transplant evaluation and which were placed on a kidney transplant wait list. The researchers found that roughly one-third of patients had inadequate health literacy. Approximately ...

... and time to placement on the kidney transplantation waiting list or time to kidney transplantation. "Because the mandatory ... of 2.0 years, 122,785 (17.5 percent) patients received a kidney transplant. ...