Long-term results in children following dialysis and renal transplantation.

Since 1966, 93 children in end-stage renal disease, aged between 5 and 16 years were treated by a combined programme of dialysis and transplantation. In 91 patients treatment of uraemia was started either as hospital or home haemodialysis, until now covering more than 90 dialysis years. Forty-one children were transplanted. Twenty children died during dialysis treatment, 7 after renal transplantation. Sixty-six children are currently alive, 25 with a functioning graft, 28 are treated by hospital dialysis, 13 by home haemodialysis. Eighty-three per cent of the patients on hospital dialysis are classified in rehabilitation category 2 according to the EDTA categories, and all children on home dialysis and those with functioning grafts, category 1.