Overcoming the Body Mass Index as a Barrier in Kidney Transplantation

K. Kalantar-Zadeh; J. Von Visger; C. E. Foster

doi:10.1111/ajt.13367

Overcoming the Body Mass Index as a Barrier in Kidney Transplantation

K. Kalantar-Zadeh
, J. Von Visger
, C. E. Foster

Medicine

University of California at Irvine
University of California at Los Angeles

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Abstract

The authors comment on the findings of Krishnan et al (page 2378) that obese dialysis patients with a high BMI who undergo kidney transplantation achieve several-fold improvement in survival, and they argue that BMI restrictions for kidney transplantation should be reconsidered.

Original language	English
Pages (from-to)	2285-2287
Number of pages	3
Journal	American Journal of Transplantation
Volume	15
Issue number	9
DOIs	https://doi.org/10.1111/ajt.13367
State	Published - Sep 1 2015

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