Risk score helps identify candidates for combined heart and kidney transplants

Monday, March 16, 2009 - 16:15 in Health & Medicine

Researchers have identified a set of criteria that, when combined with a measure of kidney function, could help identify patients who are likely to receive a survival benefit from a combined heart and kidney transplant, according to a report in the March issue of Archives of Surgery, one of the JAMA/Archives journals.

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