Demographic Characteristics, Outcome and Complications of Renal Transplantations at a Tertiary Care Center in South...

Renal transplantation is the treatment of choice for selected patients with end-stage renal disease. In this study, we present our experience and follow up data of renal transplantations done at this center with special emphasis on demographic characteristics, outcome and its complications.

All those patients who underwent renal transplantations and had been followed up at this center were studied and their details were recorded. For living donor transplantation, donor and recipient were evaluated in detail. Graft loss was defined as the patient became dialysis-dependent or underwent second renal transplantation.

A total of 250 renal transplantations were done during the study period. 16.4% of total transplantations were cadaveric transplants. Recipients mean age was 38.5±11.64 yrs and donor mean age was 42.25 ±10.79 yrs. The majority of the recipients were male (72.4%) while female donors were predominant among living donors(59.3%). Mean graft survival time was 98.2 months (95% confidence interval [CI]:72.2-114.4). Mean patient survival time was 104.5 months (95% confidence interval [CI]:82.4-126.2).

There is increasing no. of cadaveric renal transplants due to well established deceased donation programs in the state. Our patient and graft survival are comparable. Most of the immediate graft loss was due to acute rejection and late graft loss was due to chronic antibody-mediated rejection.