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Tarek Alhamad, MD, has witnessed the grief that patients with a kidney transplant experience when they are facing loss of an allograft.
“It is definitely one of the hardest discussions that we could have as transplant nephrologists with the transplant recipient,” Alhamad, associate professor of medicine and medical director of the kidney transplant program in the division of nephrology at the Washington School of Medicine at St. Louis, told Healio/Nephrology News & Issues. “Going back to dialysis is something that would change their life completely with less quality of life and major dependence on a machine to continue to survive.”
Read the full article in Healio.
582820login-checkManagement of allograft loss requires teamwork, patient involvement |