conclusions we found acceptable short-term survival in both groups; however, living donor recipients continue to have better long-term patient and graft survival rates. results although there were no significant differences in one-year survival rates of patient and graft between study groups, three-years survival rates of patient and graft were significantly longer in living donor kidney transp...

OBJECTIVE To evaluate the management of adenotonsillar hypertrophy in pediatric patients after transplantation. DESIGN A retrospective medical record review after transplantation of all pediatric patients undergoing adenotonsillectomy at the University of California, Los Angeles, Medical Center during a 14-month period. SETTING A tertiary care center. PATIENTS There were 16 patients in ou...

BACKGROUND Relatively little is known about the management and outcomes of Aboriginal children with renal failure in Canada. We evaluated differences in dialysis modality, time spent on dialysis, rates of kidney transplantation, and patient and allograft survival between Aboriginal children and non-Aboriginal children. METHODS For this population-based cohort study, we used data from a nation...

rectus sheath hematoma usually occurs unilateral but rare cases of bilateral hematoma have been reported. herein we report the first case of spontaneous bilateral rectus sheath hematoma in the kidney transplanted patient.

Kidney transplant is the treatment of choice for children and adolescents with end-stage renal disease because transplantation improves quality of life and survival to a far greater extent than chronic dialysis. Unfortunately, however, transplantation does not completely normalize the excess risks associated with end-stage renal disease nor do transplanted allografts function indefinitely. In t...

BACKGROUND ABO blood type incompatibility between a donor and recipient is generally considered a contraindication to kidney transplantation. CASE CHARACTERISTICS A 12-year-old boy presented with end stage renal disease (blood group B), with the only healthy available donor being mother (blood group AB). The child received renal transplant with mother as the donor, with a designed desensitiza...