-Risk Score May Help Combined Heart and Kidney Transplant Patients
http://www.medpagetoday.com/Transplantation/HeartTransplantation/13280
A 'risk score' which is derived from medical history and patient characteristics such as kidney function, may help allocate organs for combined heart and kidney transplantation.
Patients considered 'low risk' who had kidney failure who underwent combined heart and kidney transplants had a better survival rate than those who underwent heart transplantation alone.
"Among patients with combined kidney failure and heart failure, those classified by this risk stratification scheme as low risk should undergo combined heart and kidney transplantation," researchers wrote in the March issue of Archives of Surgery.
This will not be able to be applied to all though, because the study found there was no such benefit in either the moderate- or high-risk groups, or among those who had better kidney function.
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