Saturday, December 7, 2013

Racial Differences Noted in Liver Transplant Survival Rates

Racial and socioeconomic disparities among pediatric liver transplant patients have been revealed in new research. Findings published in iLiver Transplantation/i, a journal of the American Association for the Study of Liver Diseases and the International Liver Transplantation Society, indicate that graft and patient survival was higher in white children than minorities. For patients with end-stage liver disease (ESLD) the only treatment option for ...

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