Pretransplant dialysis and blood transfusion--correlation with cadaveric kidney graft survival.
Renal graft survival was better for the patients receiving blood transfusions or treated with dialysis before transplantation. Graft survival was more strongly correlated with pretransplant dialysis than with blood transfusion.
D001803:Blood Transfusion; D003602:Cytotoxicity, Immunologic; D005260:Female; D006085:Graft Survival; D006680:HLA Antigens / Q000032:analysis; D006801:Humans; D007165:Immunosuppression Therapy; D007518:Isoantibodies / Q000032:analysis; D016030:Kidney Transplantation; D008214:Lymphocytes / Q000276:immunology; D008297:Male; D006435:Renal Dialysis; D014019:Tissue Donors; D014184:Transplantation, Homologous; D014511:Uremia / Q000628:therapy
D006680:HLA Antigens; D007518:Isoantibodies