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Twenty Years of Renal Transplantation in Children
Author(s) -
Hasegawa Akira,
Kawamura Takeshi,
Hoshinaga Kiyotaka,
Ogawa Osamu,
Shishido Seiichirou,
Nakai Hideo,
Aikawa Atsushi,
Ohara Takehiro
Publication year - 1996
Publication title -
international journal of urology
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 1.172
H-Index - 67
eISSN - 1442-2042
pISSN - 0919-8172
DOI - 10.1111/j.1442-2042.1996.tb00326.x
Subject(s) - medicine , immunosuppression , surgery , transplantation , kidney transplantation
Two hundred and sixty–eight renal transplant operations were done in 244 children over the past 20 years. The donors were parents in 229 cases, living relatives in another 1 3 eases, and cadavers in the remaining 26 cases. There were 242 first grafts, 22 second grafts, and 4 third grafts. The initial 130 grafts were carried out with conventional immunosuppressive regimens and the subsequent 1 38 were done using immunosuppression including cyclosporin–A. In lanuary 19′)5, 186 recipients (76.2%) were alive with functioning grafts, 33 (1 3.5%) were alive on dialyses, and 25 (10.2%) were dead. The management results in terms of patient and graft survival, as well as the causes of graft failure and patient death are described.