Heart-kidney transplantation relative to heart transplantation alone was associated with superior survival regardless of dialysis status and for patients with moderate kidney disease, according to a national transplant registry analysis.
In an analysis of more than 13,000 patients who underwent simultaneous heart-kidney transplant or heart transplant alone, researchers also found that patients who received both organs were also at higher risk for kidney allograft loss compared with patients who received isolated, contralateral kidney allografts.
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