title: Analysis of the relationship between postoperative ophthalmic complications and dialysis time of pre-kidney transplantation.
abstract: OBJECTIVE
  To determine the influence of the dialysis time before kidney transplantation on postoperative ophthalmic complications.
  
  
  METHODS
  One hundred and eighty three patients who were given the follow-up after kidney transplantation were selected, including 124 males and 59 females. The dialysis time before kidney transplantation was (2.9±2.1) years. Among them, there were 93 cases having cadaveric renal transplantation and 90 cases having living relative renal transplantation. The conditions of ophthalmic complications in all the patients after kidney transplantation were investigated and the incidence rate on ophthalmic complications having different dialysis time before kidney transplantation was given Chi-square test and Chi-square linear trend test.
  
  
  RESULTS
  Among 183 patients with kidney transplantation, 95 patients (51.9%) had at least one ophthalmic complication and the rest 88 patients (48.1%) had no significant abnormality at the eye region. The most common ophthalmic complications were pinguecula/conjunctival degeneration (31 cases), the following was caligo lentis (24 cases). The main manifestations were grayish white granule and plaque turbidity occurred in posterior capsule at the posterior pole of crystaline lens. The angulus iridocornealis of 5 patients (5.3%) with cataract and glaucoma were all open-angle through the detection by gonioscope. Through visual field examination, there were 2 patients with paracentral scotoma, 2 patients with arcuate scotoma and one case with nasal step.
  
  
  CONCLUSIONS
  The experiments verify that the incidence of glaucomawas relates to the dialysis time before kidney transplantation, and the incidence rate might be higher if the dialysis time is longer.
authors: Xiangya Hospital, Central South University, Xiangya Road No.87, Changsha 410008, Hunan Province, China.
authors: Yao-Lei
authors: YL
authors: Wang
authors: Fan
authors: F
authors: Qi
authors: Jin-Liang
authors: JL
authors: Xie
authors: Lin
authors: L
authors: Qi
authors: Cheng
authors: C
authors: Zhou
authors: Xiang-Rong
authors: XR
authors: Zhu
authors: Xiang
authors: X
authors: Ding
authors: Bo
authors: B
authors: Yang
authors: Peng
authors: P
authors: Jin