PMID: 8591054Nov 1, 1995Paper

Pediatric renal transplantation

Current Opinion in Nephrology and Hypertension
A SinghA Tejani

Abstract

Renal transplantation in children is now a well established mode of optimal therapy for children with end-stage renal disease. The cooperative endeavors of the pediatric renal transplant physicians in the USA and Canada have generated a large volume of data that lends itself to rigorous scientific analysis. With changing practice patterns, the percentage 1- and 2-year graft survivals for cadaveric donor pediatric renal transplants have increased to 83 and 78%, respectively, in 1991 compared with 72 and 65% in 1987. Graft failure from acute irreversible rejection continues to take its toll in children under the age of 6 years. With funding from the National Institutes of Health a major cooperative effort has been organized by the North American Pediatric Renal Transplant Cooperative Study to determine the mechanisms that lead to heightened immune response in young children. Surveillance biopsies done in the early post-transplant days will attempt to identify the molecular mediators of acute rejection. Rehabilitation of children will not be satisfactory without accelerated growth after transplantation. Unfortunately, the longitudinal studies of the natural histories of growth after transplantation demonstrates that catch up growt...Continue Reading

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Sep 1, 2006·Pediatric Nephrology : Journal of the International Pediatric Nephrology Association·Stephen I AlexanderBrian Nankivell

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