After six years on the waitlist for a kidney transplant, suburban special education teacher Helena Fields was moved up on the list due to a recent change as to how African American kidney function was evaluated.
Leah HopeBlack kidney transplant patients have moved up on the surgery waitlist in Illinois after the factor of race was removed from eGFR blood test.A test to determine placement on a transplant waiting list has been deemed flawed. The finding will have a major impact for those waiting for the gift of life.
I think we need to work more on trying to fix these inequalities and just consider us as one human race especially when it comes to health care."I was just shocked really part of me of course was grateful they were fixing it, but still it was very annoying to know that this exists," Fields said. Race has now been taken out of the equation for the test. As a result, more than 14,000 African American patients nationwide were moved up on the transplant list. There are 1,200 African American patients in Illinois waiting for a kidney transplant.Northwestern Medicine performs its 1st awake kidney transplant procedure in under 2 hours"People do think, 'is this real?'" Fox said. "Many people didn't know it existed.
"It seems ridiculous to think that is existed for as long as it did, but when you think of the history of our country and everything that goes with that it's not surprising," Fox said.
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