Renal transplantation: Opportunities and risks for medical refugees

• Published in: Urologe. Ausgabe A Vol. 57; no. 10; pp. 1200 - 1207
• Main Authors: Mammadova, D, Hirsch, K, Schwaiger, B, Wullich, B, Rascher, W
• Format: Journal Article
• Language: German
• Published: Germany 01.10.2018
• Subjects: Adolescent; Child; Germany; Humans; Kidney Failure, Chronic - surgery; Kidney Transplantation; Refugees; Retrospective Studies; Germany; Kidney replacement therapy; Dialysis; Human migration; Renal failure; Kidney transplantation

Families with children and adolescents with end-stage renal disease came to Germany from the former Eastern Bloc countries before the wave of refugees in 2015, in order to enable their children to survive with adequate kidney replacement therapy and in the best case a kidney transplant. In a case st...