title: Preliminary report on impact of pretransplant dialysis on early graft function: peritoneal versus hemodialysis.
abstract: Delayed graft function and acute renal failure after kidney transplant negatively influence graft outcome. It has been reported that pretransplantation peritoneal dialysis (PD) instead of hemodialysis (HD) correlated with better short-term graft outcome in adult kidney recipients. In this study the impact of PD versus HD was evaluated among pediatric kidney recipients. This study suggested that different forms of dialysis pretransplantation did not affect early graft function among pediatric kidney recipients.
authors.affiliation: Department of Transplantation, San Martino University Hospital, Genoa, Italy. iris.fontana@hsanmartino.liguria.it
authors.forename: I
authors.initials: I
authors.lastname: Fontana
authors.forename: G
authors.initials: G
authors.lastname: Santori
authors.forename: F
authors.initials: F
authors.lastname: Ginevri
authors.forename: G
authors.initials: G
authors.lastname: Basile
authors.forename: M
authors.initials: M
authors.lastname: Beatini
authors.forename: M
authors.initials: M
authors.lastname: Bertocchi
authors.forename: L
authors.initials: L
authors.lastname: Bonifazio
authors.forename: L
authors.initials: L
authors.lastname: Saltalamacchia
authors.forename: D
authors.initials: D
authors.lastname: Ghinolfi
authors.forename: F
authors.initials: F
authors.lastname: Perfumo
authors.forename: U
authors.initials: U
authors.lastname: Valente
mesh_terms: D000293:Adolescent; D000704:Analysis of Variance; D002648:Child; D006801:Humans; D016030:Kidney Transplantation / Q000502:physiology*; D010530:Peritoneal Dialysis; D006435:Renal Dialysis; D012189:Retrospective Studies; D017211:Treatment Failure; D016896:Treatment Outcome