Abhijit Kshirsagar, MD, MPH, emphasizes the importance of kidney transplant聽in the editorial , with Melina Kibbe, MD, chair of the department of surgery, and David Gerber, MD, from the division of abdominal transplant surgery.
Published in , the editorial recognizes transplants as cost-effective with the greatest survival advantage, extending life by 7 to 11 years, depending on the cause of kidney failure.
Kshirsagar is the Covington Distinguished Professor of Medicine in the division of nephrology and hypertension.