Articles tagged "Mortality"

2015 American Transplant Congress
Kidney Transplant Outcomes in Marijuana Users
P. Shrivastava,¹ A. Naik,¹ A. Sakhuja,¹ Y. Lu,¹ Y. Huang,¹ F. Barrantes,² F. Luan,³ S. Kulshrestha,⁴ M. Samaniego.¹
¹Dept of Internal Medicine, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, MI; ²Presbyterian Kidney Transplantation, Albuquerque, NM; ³Dept of Kidney and Pancreas Transplantation, St. Barnabas Medical Center, Livingston, NJ; ⁴Dept of Internal Medicine, University of Iowa, Iowa City, IA.
Introduction: As Marijuana use is gaining social acceptance, many transplant centers face questions regarding candidacy of users for kidney transplantation. Currently its impact on post-transplantation…