Influence of African-American ethnicity on acute rejection after early steroid withdrawal in primary kidney transplant recipients

A Padiyar, JJ Augustine, KA Bodziak, M Aeder… - Transplantation …, 2010 - Elsevier
BACKGROUND AND PURPOSE: The influence of African-American ethnicity on outcomes
of kidney transplant recipients subjected to early steroid withdrawal remains controversial.
Recent studies that suggest no higher risk among African Americans may be biased by
recruitment of relatively small number of African Americans or by patient selection. We
compared outcomes of African Americans to non-African Americans in a center in which
early steroid withdrawal has become the standard of practice. METHODS: This was a single …