Kidney transplantation in Canada, 1981-84.
The Canadian Renal Failure Register was established in 1980. Data have been collected annually for all Canadian patients in whom irreversible kidney failure developed and who required dialysis or transplantation. The authors present actuarial patient and graft survival rates for 1981-84. In 1984, patients with a functioning renal graft accounted for 43.9% of the patients with end-stage renal disease. The number of transplants performed increased from 482 in 1981 to 662 in 1984; however, 1,022 patients undergoing dialysis (25.2%) were on an active waiting list for a transplant at the end of 1984. Greater effort is needed to increase the transplantation rate.
D000206:Actuarial Analysis; D002170:Canada; D006085:Graft Survival; D006801:Humans; D007676:Kidney Failure, Chronic / Q000601:surgery; D016030:Kidney Transplantation; D012042:Registries; D014850:Waiting Lists