Ryoichi Maenosono, Kohei Unagami, Rikako Oki, Yuya Fujiwara, Taro Banno, Daigo Okada, Takafumi Yagisawa, Taichi Kanzawa, Toshihito Hirai, Kazuya Omoto, Norio Hanafusa, Haruhito Azuma, Toshio Takagi, Hideki Ishida
BACKGROUND: Kidney transplantation is a well-established alternative in renal replacement therapy. Compared with hemodialysis, low-immunological-risk kidney transplantation can reduce the medical treatment costs associated with end-stage renal disease. However, there are few reports on whether high-immunological-risk kidney transplantation reduces the financial burden on governments. We investigated the medical costs of high-immunological-risk kidney transplantation in comparison with the cost of hemodialysis in Japan...
January 9, 2024: International Journal of Urology: Official Journal of the Japanese Urological Association