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Nephrology

Organ Transplants for Geriatric Diabetic ESRD Patients?

This month, Amy L. Friedman, M.D., and Eli A. Friedman, M.D. discuss
CME credit is no longer available for this conference.

Course Authors

Amy L. Friedman, M.D., and Eli A. Friedman, M.D.

Dr. Amy Friedman is Associate Professor of Surgery and Co-Director, Division of Transplantation, Yale University, School of Medicine, New Haven, CT.

Dr. Amy Friedman reports no commercial conflict of interest. Within the past three years, Dr. E. Friedman has received grant/research support from Alteon.

This activity is made possible by an unrestricted educational grant from Merck

Release Date: 11/01/2004

 
Learning Objectives

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

  • Discuss the growing demand for kidney transplantation for elderly patients with kidney transplantation

  • Elucidate the medical and psychosocial issues considered in the decision to pursue transplantation for elderly diabetic patients with kidney failure

  • Discuss the types of kidney transplants that may be offered to the elderly diabetic patient with kidney failure.

 

TERMS AND CONDITIONS

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The opinions expressed herein are those of the authors and do not necessarily represent the views of the sponsor or its publisher. Please review complete prescribing information of specific drugs or combination of drugs, including indications, contraindications, warnings and adverse effects before administering pharmacologic therapy to patients.

 

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