title: [Autopsy analysis of the cause of death in patients with kidney transplants].
abstract: 68 cases of autopsy of 950 patients who underwent a kidney transplantation in Berlin from 1970 to 1986 were analysed with regard to their main disease, the disease directly leading to death and secondary disease. The average age of the deceased was 39.6 years (15-56 years), the duration between kidney transplantation and death was 51.2 months (1-192 months). In the first place there are diseases of the liver (30 times primary disease, 28 times secondary disease), in which cases 24 times a liver cirrhosis was existing and in 11 cases a coma hepaticum caused death. Apart from this septic-septicopyaemic processes (23 times) were of great importance for the exitus, in which cases there were frequently close relations to liver diseases (10 times liver diseases primary disease, 12 times secondary disease). Furthermore are important for the occurrence of death the renal hypertension as well as hemorrhages particularly in the gastrointestinal tract. 15 times a diabetes mellitus was stated, in 13 cases severe changes of bones and joints were diagnosed. 4 times a neoplasia was present (3 times immunocytoma, once liver carcinoma). The diseases diagnosed are to be regarded as a sequela of the primary disease, above all, however, caused by the long-lasting immunosuppressive therapy and the influence on the endocrine system.
authors.affiliation: Klinik für Innere Medizin Theodor Brugsch, Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin.
authors.forename: P
authors.initials: P
authors.lastname: Reinke
authors.forename: H
authors.initials: H
authors.lastname: David
authors.forename: D
authors.initials: D
authors.lastname: Scholz
authors.forename: G
authors.initials: G
authors.lastname: Ditscherlein
mesh_terms: D000293:Adolescent; D000328:Adult; D001604:Berlin; D002423:Cause of Death; D006801:Humans; D007676:Kidney Failure, Chronic / Q000601:surgery*; D016030:Kidney Transplantation; D008875:Middle Aged; D011183:Postoperative Complications / Q000401:mortality*; D012307:Risk Factors
vernacular_title: Autoptische Analyse det Todesursachen bei Nierentransplantierten.