title: [Kidney transplant program facilitated by airlift between the Netherlands Antilles and the Netherlands; 1998-2001].
abstract: OBJECTIVE
  To describe the results of a structured kidney-transplantation programme available to dialysis patients in Curaçao (Dutch Caribbean), involving transplantation in the Netherlands and follow-up in Curaçao.
  
  
  METHODS
  Descriptive.
  
  
  METHODS
  In 1998, a joint venture was begun with the Academic Medical Center (AMC) in Amsterdam, the Eurotransplant Foundation, the Dutch Transplantation Working Party and the Diagnostic Division of the Sanquin Foundation in Amsterdam, the Netherlands. Its aim was to achieve a structural kidney transplantation programme for patients in the Dutch Caribbean in general and patients in Curaçao in particular. An airlift programme between Curaçao and the AMC was instituted.
  
  
  RESULTS
  Between 1998-2001 19 patients underwent a kidney transplant, three of which failed. In most of the transplants the cold ischaemia time was less than 48 hours; the average cold ischaemia time was 32 hours. All patients returned to the Antilles within 3 months where their treatment was continued. Post-transplantation follow-up was on average 13.9 months (limits 3-36); three patients died.
authors: St. Elisabeth Hospitaal, afd. Hemodialyse, Breedestraat 193(O), Curaçao, Nederlandse Antillen.
authors: N
authors: N
authors: Ajubi
authors: A C
authors: AC
authors: Roose
authors: R
authors: R
authors: Engels
authors: K
authors: K
authors: Berend
authors: S
authors: S
authors: Surachno
authors: A J
authors: AJ
authors: Duits
mesh_terms: D000328:Adult; D000368:Aged; D017732:Air Ambulances; D005260:Female; D006084:Graft Rejection; D006801:Humans; D016030:Kidney Transplantation; D008297:Male; D008875:Middle Aged; D009426:Netherlands; D009427:Netherlands Antilles; D010360:Patient Transfer; D015427:Reperfusion Injury; D016896:Treatment Outcome