Contemporary outcomes of the pediatric kidney transplant program in Johannesburg, South Africa, between 2004 and 2017: Better or not-And which way forward?
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Contemporary outcomes of the pediatric kidney transplant program in Johannesburg, South Africa, between 2004 and 2017: Better or not-And which way forward?
BACKGROUND Outcomes for the pediatric kidney transplant program in Johannesburg (1984-2003) were found to be suboptimal. In this study, we compared (a) early (era 1:1984-2003) to contemporary (era 2:2004-2017) outcomes and (b) compared contemporary outcomes between the public and private sector hospitals in our program. METHODS We conducted a retrospective record review of all pediatric (