Long-term Outcome of Kidney Transplantation in Children

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Nephrology| July 01 1999 Long-term Outcome of Kidney Transplantation in Children AAP Grand Rounds (1999) 2 (1): 5–6. https://doi.org/10.1542/gr.2-1-5 Views Icon Views Article contents Figures & tables Video Audio Supplementary Data Peer Review Share Icon Share Twitter LinkedIn Tools Icon Tools Get Permissions Cite Icon Cite Search Site Citation Long-term Outcome of Kidney Transplantation in Children. AAP Grand Rounds July 1999; 2 (1): 5–6. https://doi.org/10.1542/gr.2-1-5 Download citation file: Ris (Zotero) Reference Manager EasyBib Bookends Mendeley Papers EndNote RefWorks BibTex toolbar search nav search search input Search input auto suggest search filter All PublicationsAll JournalsAAP Grand RoundsPediatricsHospital PediatricsPediatrics In ReviewNeoReviewsAAP NewsAll AAP Sites Search Advanced Search Topics: renal transplantation, transplantation Source: Offner G, Latta K, Hoyer PF, et al. Kidney transplanted children come of age. Kid Int. 1999;55:1509–1517. This study is a follow up of 150 children from the Pediatric Transplantation Unit of the Children’s Hospital in Hanover, Germany, who were born before December 1977 and who received a kidney transplant between 1970 and 1993. As of December 1995, 124 patients were still alive, 22 had died, and 4 were lost to follow-up. The actuarial survival rate at 25 years was 81% and the survival of the first transplanted kidney was 31%. The half-life of first grafts was 10.5 years. The major diagnoses which caused renal failure were nephronophthisis (medullary cystic disease) (28), dysplasia/hypoplasia (21), obstructive uropathy (20), cystinosis (19), focal segmental glomerulosclerosis (13), hemolytic uremic syndrome (10), Alport syndrome (9), Henoch-Schonlein nephritis (6), and membranoproliferative glomerulonephritis (6). Only the large number of patients with... You do not currently have access to this content.