Patients on dialysis after renal graft failure have increased risk of death
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Many patients return to dialysis after renal graft failure, but whether mortality is higher among these patients than among those on the waiting list for a first transplant is unknown. Rao et al. analyzed data from the Scientific Registry of Transplant Recipients and found that overall mortality was 78% higher in patients who had experienced failure of a primary graft than it was in those who had not yet undergone transplantation.
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