Interesting transplant case:
A 35 year old man with a history of acute myelogenous leukemia, status post a bone marrow transplant from his sister eight years ago and now cured, who developed chronic kidney disease as a result of prior calcineurin inhibitor toxicity and prior XRT. His CKD has progressed over the past several years and now is at the point where his GFR is
Wow. It makes you think a bit.
As a carer for a patient with a cadaveric transplant (almost 20 years) it makes me wonder…
Whilst my view is completely simplistic, why wouldn't a bone marrow transplant be considered prior to organ transplantation? That is, with living donors?