Fifty Uremic Patients Treated with Renal Homotransplantation

Abstract

Fifty uremic patients were treated with kidney homotransplantation between January 1965 and August 1967. Twenty-three patients received a kidney from a living donor, twenty-seven from a cadaveric donor. Six patients had to be retransplanted because of failure of the first transplant. At the present time 34 patients are alive. Three of these are on hemodialysis, the others have functioning transplants. The general condition and level of activity of these patients is on the whole very good. The results are discussed particularly with regard to the type of donor and the age of the recipient, and the causes of death.