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To create a world without kidney diseases, the ASN Alliance for Kidney Health elevates care by educating and informing, driving breakthroughs and innovation, and advocating for policies that create transformative changes in kidney medicine throughout the world.

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Kidney Week

Clinical Practice Session

Breaking Down Barriers to Transplantation: Management of Older Adults and Individuals with Obesity

October 25, 2024 | 10:30 AM - 12:30 PM

Location: Ballroom 20C, Convention Center

Session Description

People with obesity have reduced access to transplantation. Older and frail transplant recipients have poor outcomes after transplantation. This session covers surgical management and approaches and reviews post-transplant kidney outcomes in patients with obesity. The effects of frailty and therapeutic interventions to address frailty in older kidney transplant candidates are discussed.

Learning Objective(s)

  • Discuss obesity and the associated limited access to kidney transplantation
  • Summarize surgical approaches to kidney transplant candidates with obesity
  • Describe the effects of frailty after transplant and potential therapeutic interventions

Learning Pathway(s)

  • Kidney Transplantation

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