Rees Lesley
Department of Nephrology, Great Ormond Street Hospital for Children NHS Trust, London, UK.
Pediatr Nephrol. 2009 Mar;24(3):475-84. doi: 10.1007/s00467-007-0559-2. Epub 2007 Aug 9.
The purpose of this article is to review: 1. Factors influencing long-term outcome data after transplantation 2. Patient survival overall, the effect of recipient age and donor type, causes of death, comparison of mortality after transplantation with that on dialysis, and effect of pre-emptive transplantation and race 3. Transplant survival overall, and the effect of recipient and donor age, donor type, pre-emptive transplantation, recurrent diseases, human leukocyte antigen (HLA) matching, immunosuppression, concordance, hypertension, bladder dynamics and type of donor nephrectomy 4. Final height and obesity 5. Psycho-social outcome.