Decade-long trial confirms benefts of steroid withdrawal for transplant patients
Monday, August 23, 2010 - 13:21
in Health & Medicine
A University of Cincinnati (UC) analysis of 10 years of data from local kidney transplant patients shows that patients removed from a corticosteroid regimen shortly after surgery have better graft survival rates, better survival rates and fewer cardiovascular events than patients kept on the traditional regimen of long-term steroids.