Kidney patients know little about transplant benefits

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Kidney patients know little about transplant benefits

By Ronnie Cohen NEW YORK (Reuters Health) - In a new study, the vast majority of kidney failure patients told researchers they saw no need for a kidney transplant because they were doing fine on dialysis ? but the researchers say these patients might not realize how much a transplant could help them. ?Nobody is doing fine on dialysis to the point where a transplant wouldn?t be better for them,? senior author Dr. Dorry Segev told Reuters Health. ?Transplantation is the better form of renal replacement. ...

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