title: One hundred kidney transplantations in Tuzla.
abstract: BACKGROUND
  Kidney transplantation assures considerably better quality of life than the treatment of end-stage renal disease patients with dialysis.
  
  
  OBJECTIVE
  Authors intended to present results of kidney transplantations that were performed for over 13 years in UCC Tuzla.
  
  
  METHODS
  Total of 100 transplantations have been done over 13 years. The gender and age structure have been presented, as well as number of transplantations per year, type of transplantation (living related donor, living unrelated donor, deceased donor), number and percentage of donors and results of transplantations expressed as survival of both the patient and transplanted kidney/ renal graft. We also wanted to presented other important events such as dates of introduction of certain drugs, dates of first cadaver transplantation, transplantation with desensitization protocols and dates of first living unrelated (spousal/emotional) transplantation.
  
  
  RESULTS
  The survival of patients and renal grafts were demonstrated by Kaplan-Meier curve, and obtained results were fully in range of results recommended in other literature and by other authors. One-year survival of graft is 94%, with five-year survival being 75%. One-year survival of patients is 95%, and five-year survival of patients was 84%.
  
  
  CONCLUSIONS
  Our results have been compared to those from other studies, gaining suggestions for transplantation improvement.
  
  
  CONCLUSIONS
  Among all modifications of renal replacement therapy transplantation is by far the method of choice because, its well known advantages aside, it also has an economical advantage over chronic treatment with dialysis and it should therefore become interesting to healthcare systems.
authors.affiliation: Department of Nephrology, Dialysis and Transplantations, Clinic for Internal Diseases, UCC Tuzla, Tuzla, Bosnia and Herzegovina. hodzic58@hotmail.com
authors.forename: Emir
authors.initials: E
authors.lastname: Hodzic
authors.forename: Mithat
authors.initials: M
authors.lastname: Tabakovic
authors.forename: Enisa
authors.initials: E
authors.lastname: Mesic
authors.forename: Majda
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authors.lastname: Brcic
authors.forename: Senaid
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authors.lastname: Trnavcevic
authors.forename: Mirza
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authors.lastname: Atic
authors.forename: Denijal
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authors.lastname: Tulumovic
authors.forename: Davor
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authors.lastname: Trojak
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authors.lastname: Taletovic-Dugonjic
authors.forename: Mirna
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authors.lastname: Aleckovic-Halilovic
authors.forename: Samed
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authors.lastname: Jagodic
authors.forename: Rasim
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authors.lastname: Agic
authors.forename: Zoran
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authors.lastname: Manojlovic
authors.forename: Zinaida
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authors.lastname: Karasalihovic
authors.forename: Jasminka
authors.initials: J
authors.lastname: Mustedanagic-Mujkanovic
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authors.lastname: Mott-Divkovic
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authors.lastname: Hujdurovic
mesh_terms: D000328:Adult; D017522:Bosnia and Herzegovina / Q000453:epidemiology; D005260:Female; D006085:Graft Survival; D006801:Humans; D016030:Kidney Transplantation / Q000401:mortality / Q000706:statistics & numerical data*; D019520:Living Donors / Q000706:statistics & numerical data; D008297:Male