[Impact of allograft weight and the recipient's body weight on long-term allograft function].
OBJECTIVE
To investigate the relationship of the renal allograft weight and the recipient's body weight with allograft function after transplantation.


METHODS
The correlation of the renal allograft weight, the recipient's body weight, the ratio of the allograft weight to the recipient body weight and the mean serum creatinine (sCr) 3 years after transplantation were measured in 108 kidney recipients.


RESULTS
The allograft weight was inversely correlated with the mean sCr 3 years after transplantation (P<0.01).


CONCLUSIONS
The renal allograft weight, recipient's body weight and the ratio of allograft weight to recipient's body weight are important indicators of the long-term allograft function after transplantation, and recipients with greater body weight should receive allografts of higher weight.
Fu
Shao-jie
SJ
Department of Kidney Transplantation, Nanfang Hospital, Southern Medical University, Guangzhou 510515, China.
Yu
Li-xin
LX
DU
Chuan-fu
CF
Xu
Jian
J
Liu
Xiao-you
XY
Wang
Yi-bin
YB
D000293:Adolescent; D000328:Adult; D000368:Aged; D001835:Body Weight; D002648:Child; D005260:Female; D006085:Graft Survival; D006801:Humans; D007668:Kidney / Q000033:anatomy & histology / Q000502:physiology*; D016030:Kidney Transplantation / Q000502:physiology*; D019520:Living Donors; D008297:Male; D008875:Middle Aged; D009929:Organ Size; D013997:Time Factors; D014184:Transplantation, Homologous