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- Title
Pediatric renal transplants: A Canadian perspective.
- Authors
Arbus, Gerald S.; Geary, Denis F.; McLorie, Gordon A.; Major, Marilyn L.; Berdock, Steven E.; Freedman, Lila; Baumal, Reuben
- Abstract
The article discusses results of pediatric transplantation in Canada from 1981 to 1983, with focus on the experience at The Hospital of Sick Children in Toronto. The methods employed to reduce the need for dialysis after transplantation are described. The importance of cadaveric transplantation in young children is discussed. The hospital's patient survival curves are similar with those reported by the European Dialysis Transplant Association for children below six years old in that these children have a 10% to 20% decrease in life expectancy, one to five years after the first cadaveric kidney transplant or after entering a dialysis/transplant program.
- Subjects
CANADA; KIDNEY transplantation; JUVENILE diseases; PEDIATRIC nephrology; KIDNEY diseases
- Publication
Kidney International Supplement, 1986, Issue 19, pS31
- ISSN
0098-6577
- Publication type
Article