NEW YORK (Reuters Health) – In certain patients with diabetes-related kidney disease, performing a transplant before the need for dialysis arises seems to be advantageous, researchers report.
“Preemptive transplantation remains an optimal form of kidney replacement therapy for individuals with diabetes when they receive a living donor kidney — or when they receive a simultaneous pancreas-kidney transplant, in the case of individuals with type 1 diabetes,” said Dr. Bryan N. Becker of the University of Wisconsin.
Becker, at the University of Wisconsin-Madison