[The experience of kidney transplantation at the Donetsk transplantation center]

In Donetskiy transplantational centre during the period from 1986 to 1996 yr were conducted 305 operations of the kidney transplantation from the cadaveric and living donor. Kidney transplantation permits to achieve higher level of rehabilitation than while application of hemodialysis and must become the method of choice in treatment of terminal stage of chronic renal insufficiency. Considering large demand for the organs transplantation in Ukraine it is necessary to create an economically substantiated programme "Transplantation of organs".