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...

Kidney transplantations are about exchanges. Grafts are moved from dead bodies to living ones in return for gratitude and meaning; between friends and family members out of, or in hope of, affection; and between strangers for philanthropic or pecuniary reasons. These exchanges raise legal, psychological, ethical, and philosophical questions, and kidney transplantations owe their high visibility...

The severe organ shortage in Israel has prompted many patients to undergo kidney transplantation abroad. In May 2008, the Israeli Knesset approved the Israel Transplant Law prohibiting organ trade and disallowing health insurers to reimburse the cost of illegal transplantation abroad. The aim of this study was to assess the initial effect of the law on kidney transplantations inside and outside...

AIM To compare the outcomes between related and unrelated kidney transplantations. METHODS Literature searches were performed following the Cochrane guidelines. We conducted a systematic review and a meta-analysis, which included 12 trials that investigated outcomes including the long-term (ten years), mid-term (one to five years), and short-term (one year) graft survival rate as well as the ...

Transplantation of the horseshoe kidney can be performed en bloc or split into 2 grafts according to the vascular anomaly and the existence of the urinary collecting system in isthmus. From 2011 to 2014, there were 3 horseshoe kidney transplantations in Korea and transplantations were performed at 2 different centers. The transplantations were carried out successfully for all recipients without...

BACKGROUND The aim of this study was to investigate whether the number of transplantations, as a marker of the graft rejection status of the patient, is associated with an increased risk of malignancies. METHODS In a cohort study, 1213 patients, receiving a kidney transplantation between 1966 and 1995 at the Leiden University Medical Center, were analyzed. All cutaneous squamous cell carcinom...

We report a chain of 10 kidney transplantations, initiated in July 2007 by a single altruistic donor (i.e., a donor without a designated recipient) and coordinated over a period of 8 months by two large paired-donation registries. These transplantations involved six transplantation centers in five states. In the case of five of the transplantations, the donors and their coregistered recipients ...

In this report, early complications (defined as those occurring within one month post-operatively) following renal transplantation were evaluated in 373 kidney transplantations in our department. The most common complications as well as their relative frequency and method of management are discussed.

Between June, 1984 and January 20, 1987, 69 kidney transplantations were performed in our department. All kidneys were acquired from living donors. 63% of the cases were high-risk MLC-positive (poorly matched), and all but one were from related sources. There were only five rejected kidneys, all of which occurred in kidneys from parent donors. 28 recipients received donor-specific transfus...

The optimal order of revascularization for pancreas and kidney grafts in simultaneous pancreas-kidney transplantation has not been established. In this study, we investigate the influence of graft implantation order on graft survival in SPK. 12 700 transplantations from the Scientific Registry of Transplant Recipients were analyzed retrospectively. Graft implantation order was determined based ...