PMID: 18202510Jan 19, 2008Paper

Post-renal transplant proteinuria: the saudi experience

Saudi Journal of Kidney Diseases and Transplantation : an Official Publication of the Saudi Center for Organ Transplantation, Saudi Arabia
Muhammad Ziad SouqiyyehFahd Al-Hawas

Abstract

We conducted this study to evaluate the risk factors for proteinuria in renal transplant patients. We reviewed the records of the active renal transplant patients at two large transplant centers in Riyadh and Jeddah in Saudi Arabia, transplanted between January 1979 and November 1998. The recipients were grouped according to the presence and magnitude of proteinuria: group I; from zero-0.3 g/L, group II; from 0.4-1.0 g/L, group III; more than one g/L. The records of 340 patients were reviewed in this study. The mean age of the study patients was 39.7 years and the mean duration following transplantation was 82.2 months. There were 209 (61.5%) patients in group I, 92 (27.1%) patients in group II and 39 (11.5%) patients in group III. There was no significant difference among the three groups in terms of mean age, mean duration after transplantation, type of donor (living-related and unrelated, or cadaver), rate of re-transplantation (8.2%), prevalence of hypertension while on dialysis (66.6%), etiology of original renal disease, incidence of acute rejection in the first year, occurrence of diabetes after transplantation (30.6%), or mean serum level of cholesterol (5.9 mmol/L). In comparison to the other groups, group I had signif...Continue Reading

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