Kidney transplant results in children: progress made, but blacks lag behind

Early kidney transplant results in children lagged behind corresponding results in adults. Multiple advances over the last three decades have eliminated that gap. Most children now have equal or superior long-term allograft and patient survival compared to adult recipients. However, black children in the USA continue to have comparatively inferior allograft survival results to non-black children, even after extensive adjustments for socioeconomic status and access to transplantation.