title: Early non-immunological post transplant complications: a single center experience.
abstract: To assess non-immunological complications affecting renal transplant patients in the first six months after transplantation in Al-Karama hospital, Baghdad, Iraq, we studied 68 patients (49 males, 19 females) attending the clinic during the year 2006. Forty six (67%) patients received kidneys from related and 22 (33%) from unrelated donors. The patients revealed the following complications: post transplant hypertension in 28 (41%) patient, infection (mostly bacterial) in 27 (37%), new onset diabetes in 11 (16%), calcineurin inhibitor toxicity in 10 (14%), anemia in 8 (12%), surgical complications in 7 (10%), slow graft recovery in 4 (6%), cardiovascular complications in 3 (4%), and Kaposi sarcoma in 2 (2.9%). Transient hyperglycemia, hypertension, infection and diabetes mellitus were the commonest early complications of renal transplantation. The incidence of complications is comparable to the average reported in the literature, especially in this region of the world.
authors.affiliation: Nephrology Department, Al-Karamah Teaching Hospital, Baghdad, Iraq. drwaellatif@hotmail.com
authors.forename: Wael Latif
authors.initials: WL
authors.lastname: Jabur
authors.forename: Hareth M
authors.initials: HM
authors.lastname: Mohammed Saaed
authors.forename: Khalid
authors.initials: K
authors.lastname: Abdulla
mesh_terms: D000740:Anemia / Q000209:etiology; D002318:Cardiovascular Diseases / Q000209:etiology; D003920:Diabetes Mellitus / Q000209:etiology; D006801:Humans; D006943:Hyperglycemia / Q000209:etiology; D006973:Hypertension / Q000209:etiology; D007493:Iraq; D016030:Kidney Transplantation / Q000009:adverse effects*; D011183:Postoperative Complications / Q000145:classification*; D012189:Retrospective Studies