title: [Kidney transplantation in obese recipients: review of the Transplantation Committee of the French Association of Urology].
abstract: BACKGROUND
  Transplantation Committee of the French Association of Urology (CTAFU) conducted a review of the complication of kidney transplantation in obese recipients.
  
  
  METHODS
  A bibliographic research in French and English using Medline with the keywords "obesity", "body mass index", "kidney transplantation", "graft function", "survival", "wound complications", "graft rejection" and "graft survival" was performed. We limited the review for the last fifteen years because of the change in immunosuppressive treatment area. Only studies with more than 20 obese patients were selected.
  
  
  RESULTS
  Wound or infectious postoperative complications and delayed graft function are more frequent in obese patients than in non-obese recipients. Similarly, transplant survival at 5 years is lower in obese patients. On the other hand, patient survival and acute rejection are the same between the two groups if recipient selection is carefully made, particularly with regard to heart complication.
  
  
  CONCLUSIONS
  Kidney transplantation in obese patients is not an easy surgery with known complication. Obese patients will take time before transplantation to explain all the risk and a regular heart follow-up is crucial if we don't want to reduce patient survival. But obese survival is better if we proceed to kidney transplantation than if they stay on dialysis, arguing for a non-exclusion of the waiting list. So there is the need for a national study concerning obese patients on waiting list to enact future guidelines.
authors.affiliation: Service d'urologie et de transplantation rénale, hôpital Lapeyronie, Montpellier cedex, France. rodolphethuret@gmail.com
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authors.initials: R
authors.lastname: Thuret
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authors.lastname: Tillou
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authors.lastname: Doerfler
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mesh_terms: D006084:Graft Rejection; D006085:Graft Survival; D006801:Humans; D016030:Kidney Transplantation / Q000401:mortality; D009765:Obesity / Q000150:complications*; D018579:Patient Selection; D011183:Postoperative Complications; D051437:Renal Insufficiency / Q000401:mortality / Q000601:surgery*