title: Living unrelated donor kidney transplantation between spouses.
abstract: From November 3, 1975 to November 3, 1990, 874 kidney transplants were performed at out centers. Of these, 675 (77.2%) were from living donors and 199 (22.8%) were from cadaver donors. Five hundred eighty (66.4%) of the living donors were first degree related while 99 (11.3%) were unrelated or second degree related donors, 29 of which were spouses. All donor recipient pairs were ABO-compatible, with the exception of one pair. Donor recipient relations were wife to husband in 25 cases and husband to wife in 4 cases. All were first grafts and started functioning during surgery. In this series, the follow-up for the recipients was 4 to 64 months (mean 33.5 +/- 4.5 months). One-year patient survival and graft survival rates were 92.4% and 81.9%, respectively. Two-year patient survival and graft survival rates were 92.4% and 78.2%, respectively. The single ABO-incompatible case is also doing well, 21 months postoperatively. This study demonstrates that the interspouse kidney transplantation may be used when cadaver organ shortage is a problem. While providing the couple with a better quality of life, interspouse kidney transplantation also enables the couple to share the joy of giving and receiving the "gift of life" from one another.
authors.affiliation: Turkish Transplantation and Burn Foundation Hospital, Ankara.
authors.forename: M
authors.initials: M
authors.lastname: Haberal
authors.forename: H
authors.initials: H
authors.lastname: Gulay
authors.forename: R
authors.initials: R
authors.lastname: Tokyay
authors.forename: Z
authors.initials: Z
authors.lastname: Oner
authors.forename: T
authors.initials: T
authors.lastname: Enunlu
authors.forename: N
authors.initials: N
authors.lastname: Bilgin
mesh_terms: D000328:Adult; D002102:Cadaver; D005260:Female; D006085:Graft Survival; D006801:Humans; D016030:Kidney Transplantation / Q000379:methods* / Q000706:statistics & numerical data; D008297:Male; D008393:Marriage; D014019:Tissue Donors / Q000706:statistics & numerical data; D014184:Transplantation, Homologous / Q000706:statistics & numerical data*; D014421:Turkey