1984 Volume 75 Issue 5 Pages 766-771
One hundred and six kidney transplants were perfomed at our clinic from February 1973 until December 1982. They consisted of 99 living related transplants and 7 cadaveric transplants. The total survival rate was 95% at 1 year and 89% at 5 year.
The graft survival rate in the living related transplant was 85% at 1 year and 73% at 5 year. On the other hand, the number of cadaveric transplant was only 7 and the graft survival rate was 51% at 6 month. The decrease of posttransplant serious complications resulted in good patient survival and graft survival in the living related transplant. No case with urological complications was led to graft loss or patient death.
Two factors, histocompatibility and pretransplant blood transfusion which would have an influence upon graft survival, were analysed. 5 year graft survival of no mismatch in HLA AB was 100%, which was significantly higher than that of 1 or 2 mismatch (p<0.01). The correlation between pretransplant transfusion and graft survival of the living related transplantation was present at 1 year and 2 year graft survival, but was not at 5 year.
