Duality: How kidney transplant failure feels for patients, care partners and professionals

Patients and their care partners cited kidney transplant failure as an event that felt “inevitable” yet “surprising,” according to study data. Kidney transplant failure occurs when a kidney transplant recipient is expected to need dialysis, retransplantation or conservative kidney management within 1 year, according to Pippa Bailey, PhD, professor of renal medicine at Bristol Medical School in