Kidney transplantation in Afghan refugees residing in Iran: the first report of survival analysis.
BACKGROUND
We report, for the first time, the data on the outcome of kidney transplantation activities in the Afghan population from Iran.


METHODS
We extracted the demographic, clinical and the outcome related data of all Afghan kidney transplanted patients, from 1998 to April 2006, from the United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees (UNHCR) and the Dialysis and Transplant Patients Association (DATPA) databases.


RESULTS
During this period 103 Afghan patients (70.9% male, 29.1% female) underwent renal transplantation in Iran. The mean age at transplantation was 32.7 years. The kidney sources were living unrelated donors (LURD) in 82.5%, living related donors (LRD) in 15.5% and cadaver in 2% patients. The graft and patient survival rates for 1, 3 and 5 years were 97 and 98, 86 and 95, 73 and 95 percent, respectively.


CONCLUSIONS
Both graft and patient survival rates were good and comparable to those reported previously in Iranian patients.
Moghani-Lankarani
Maryam
M
Medicine and Health Promotion Institute, Tehran, Iran.
Assari
Shervin
S
Kardavani
Babak
B
Einollah
Behzad
B
D000293:Adolescent; D000328:Adult; D000346:Afghanistan / Q000208:ethnology; D000368:Aged; D002648:Child; D005260:Female; D006085:Graft Survival; D006801:Humans; D007492:Iran / Q000453:epidemiology; D007676:Kidney Failure, Chronic / Q000601:surgery; D016030:Kidney Transplantation / Q000401:mortality* / Q000706:statistics & numerical data; D008297:Male; D008875:Middle Aged; D012036:Refugees; D012189:Retrospective Studies; D016019:Survival Analysis; D016896:Treatment Outcome; D055815:Young Adult