Racial disparities in paediatric kidney transplantation

Background Transplantation is the preferred treatment for children with end-stage kidney disease (ESKD). Pre-emptive transplants, those from live donors and with few human leukocyte antigen (HLA) mismatches provide the best outcomes. Studies into disparities in paediatric transplantation to date hav...

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Published in:Pediatric nephrology (Berlin, West) West), 2014, Vol.29 (1), p.125-132
Main Authors: Grace, Blair S., Kennedy, Sean E., Clayton, Philip A., McDonald, Stephen P.
Format: Article
Language:English
Subjects:
Adolescent
Antigens
Australia
Blood & organ donations
Care and treatment
Child
Child, Preschool
Children
Chronic kidney failure
Diseases
Female
Health care disparities
Healthcare Disparities - ethnology
Hemodialysis
Hospitals
Humans
Inequality
Infant
Infant, Newborn
Kidney diseases
Kidney Failure, Chronic - surgery
Kidney Transplantation
Kidney transplants
Kidneys
Leukocytes
Male
Medicine
Medicine & Public Health
Native peoples
Nephrology
Original Article
Patient outcomes
Patients
Pediatrics
Race
Racial differences
Renal replacement therapy
Retrospective Studies
Transplantation
Urology
White People
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Summary:Background Transplantation is the preferred treatment for children with end-stage kidney disease (ESKD). Pre-emptive transplants, those from live donors and with few human leukocyte antigen (HLA) mismatches provide the best outcomes. Studies into disparities in paediatric transplantation to date have not adequately disentangled different transplant types. Methods We studied a retrospective cohort of 823 patients aged
ISSN:0931-041X
1432-198X
1432-198X
DOI:10.1007/s00467-013-2572-y