UC DAVIS (US) — A recent study found that girls were 22 percent less likely than boys to get placed on a kidney transplant waiting list.“If the goal is to get them transplanted as soon as possible, then they need to be wait-listed as soon as possible,” says lead author Stephanie Nguyen, assistant professor of pediatric nephrology at the University of California, Davis. “The longer they’re waiting for a transplant, the worse their outcomes will be.”
Nguyen says the findings, reported in the journal Pediatric Transplantation, are a clarion call for clinicians to pay close attention to the transplant evaluation process and to ensure that girls are given opportunities to receive transplants as quickly as possible.
