title: Maintenance dialysis and renal transplantation facilities in South Africa - July 1976.
abstract: A survey undertaken at the end of July 1976 revealed that 22 hospital centres were treating 258 patients with chronic renal failure by haemodialysis, and 32 patients by peritoneal dialysis. In addition, 8 patients were receiving home dialysis. Five of the centres that had transplantation programmes were treating 224 survivors with functioning renal homografts.
mesh_terms: D006437:Hemodialysis, Home; D006757:Hospital Units; D006801:Humans; D007676:Kidney Failure, Chronic / Q000601:surgery / Q000628:therapy*; D016030:Kidney Transplantation; D010530:Peritoneal Dialysis; D006435:Renal Dialysis; D013019:South Africa; D014184:Transplantation, Homologous