The Management of Renal Failure

African Americans receive fewer donor kidneys in relation to the number of African Americans waiting for a kidney transplant than do whites.

CME credit is no longer available for this conference.

Course Authors

Eli A. Friedman, M.D.

Release Date: 04/02/2003

Upon completion of this Cyberounds^®, you should be able to:

Discuss the incidence and prevalence of end-stage renal disease in the United States including an awareness of the dominance of hypertension and diabetes as precipitating causes
Discuss the impact of race on the incidence of kidney failure with associated presentation of the puzzle of why African American, Hispanic, and Native American ESRD patients have better survival during maintenance hemodialysis than do whites
Define and describe the concept of renoprotection as the detection and proactive treatment of the broad based population of those destined to deteriorate into ESRD.

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