Chronic renal failure and transplantation

Chronic renal failure may be treated by haemodialysis, continuous ambulatory peritoneal dialysis, or renal transplantation. The advent of CAPD has allowed many more patients to be treated, especially the elderly and very young children. Transplantation is being offered increasingly over a wider age range and patients may now expect to have a 75 per cent chance of keeping a kidney for one year and a 60 per cent chance of keeping it for five years.