PHILADELPHIA — Preemptive kidney transplant in older adults with a high kidney donor profile index pre-transplant may be linked to better patient and graft survival, data show.
“The perioperative risk and morbidity from immunosuppression are two concerns that are commonly cited that are balanced against the known benefits of preemptive, defined as prior-to-dialysis kidney transplant, and this causes some patients to be considered ‘too early’ for transplant,” Colleen Louise Jay, MD, of the Wake Forest University School of Medicine, said at the American Transplant