Cadaveric renal graft survival: the bearing of the number of blood transfusions and of dialysis treatment.
In a series of 229 recipients of first-time cadaveric renal grafts the graft survival figures were better the larger the number of blood units transfused prior to transplantation. However, the difference between the groups receiving transfusions and that which did not was statistically significant only for the groups receiving 4 units or more. For the patients receiving more than 20 units there was an elevated incidence of HBs antigenemia and of HLA antibodies. The kidneys received by these patients tended to be better matched than those of the patients given less blood. Graft survival was significantly better for the patients that had been on dialysis than for those that had not. Dialysis was more strongly correlated to graft survival than was blood transfusion.
D001803:Blood Transfusion; D006085:Graft Survival; D006650:Histocompatibility Testing; D006801:Humans; D016030:Kidney Transplantation; D010530:Peritoneal Dialysis