title: Delayed graft function, allograft and patient srvival     in kidney transplantation.
abstract: BACKGROUND
  Delayed Graft Function (DGF) is a common complication of renal transplants and the long-term relation between DGF and survival of patients and grafts is not well established.
  
  
  METHODS
  This is a historical cohort study of transplanted patients in Taleghani Hospital of Shahid Beheshti University in Iran between 1994 and 2010. Patients who required dialysis during the first week after transplantation were considered to have DGF. The patients' conditions were updated to determine existing graft function, graft loss or patients' death at one year and five years post transplantation in relation to the presence or absence of DGF.
  
  
  RESULTS
  DGF complicated 67/385 transplants (17.4%). Causes included acute tubular necrosis (58.2%), accelerated rejection (29.9%), transplant renal artery thrombosis (9%) and renal vein thrombosis (3%). More kidneys in the DGF group were procured from cadaveric donors (6% versus 0.9%, P = 0.02). At hospital discharge, patients with DGF had significantly higher mean creatinine level (4.4 ± 2.8 versus 2.0 ± 1.7; P = 0.001) compared to other patients. They also had more early acute rejection episodes and more late acute rejection episodes (34.3% versus 2% and 16.4% versus 3%, respectively; P = 0.0001) compared to other patients. The proportion of functioning grafts was significantly lower in the DGF group at 1-year (53.7% versus 95.3%, P = 0.0001) and 5-years (22.4% versus 61.6%, P = 0.001) compared to patients without DGF.
  
  
  CONCLUSIONS
  The DGF group had a significantly higher acute rejection rate and an increased risk of graft loss at one and five years.
authors.affiliation: Department of Nephrology and Transplant, Shahid Beheshti University of Medical Sciences, Iran.
authors.forename: Mohammad Hassan
authors.initials: MH
authors.lastname: Ghadiani
authors.forename: Said
authors.initials: S
authors.lastname: Peyrovi
authors.forename: Seyed Nouraddin
authors.initials: SN
authors.lastname: Mousavinasab
authors.forename: Mojgan
authors.initials: M
authors.lastname: Jalalzadeh
mesh_terms: D000328:Adult; D002102:Cadaver; D015331:Cohort Studies; D051799:Delayed Graft Function / Q000401:mortality*; D005260:Female; D006084:Graft Rejection / Q000401:mortality*; D006085:Graft Survival; D006801:Humans; D007676:Kidney Failure, Chronic / Q000401:mortality* / Q000601:surgery; D016030:Kidney Transplantation / Q000379:methods / Q000401:mortality*; D019520:Living Donors / Q000706:statistics & numerical data; D008297:Male; D008875:Middle Aged; D011183:Postoperative Complications / Q000401:mortality*; D012189:Retrospective Studies; D014184:Transplantation, Homologous; D055815:Young Adult