title: Results of renal transplantation in children.
abstract: From 1968 to 1978, 66 renal transplants were performed on 58 pediatric patients with end stage renal failure. With a mean followup of 6 years 46 patients (79.3 per cent) are alive and 35 (60.3 per cent) currently have a functioning renal allograft. Live donor allografts yielded fewer surgical complications and better long-term functional survival rates than cadaver allografts. Patient rehabilitation following a successful renal transplant was excellent. However, despite resumption of growth in most cases normal linear growth was achieved rarely. Renal transplantation provides the best long-term solution to the problem of end stage renal disease in children.
mesh_terms: D000293:Adolescent; D002102:Cadaver; D002648:Child; D005260:Female; D005500:Follow-Up Studies; D006085:Graft Survival; D006801:Humans; D007676:Kidney Failure, Chronic / Q000401:mortality / Q000628:therapy; D016030:Kidney Transplantation; D008297:Male; D014019:Tissue Donors; D014184:Transplantation, Homologous