title: Evaluation of renal transplantations performed in the Transplantation Center at Sanko University Medical School.
abstract: BACKGROUND
  Renal transplantation is the optimum treatment to improve the quality and length of life in end-stage renal disease. The aim of this study is to evaluate patients who underwent renal transplantation in our transplantation center and to present our clinical experience.
  
  
  METHODS
  Living donor and cadaveric renal transplants performed in the Transplantation Center of Sanko University Medical School between 2011 and 2014 were evaluated retrospectively. In our study, important parameters, such as delayed graft function, early and late phase infections and urologic complications after the operation, results of renal transplants with marginal donors with high creatinine levels, and increase in posttransplant body mass index were evaluated regarding to the living donor and cadaveric renal transplants performed in our transplantation center.
  
  
  RESULTS
  We included 136 patients were (92 males [68%] and 44 females [32%]), with an average age of 38.9 ± 9.8 years (range, 17-67). There were 63 living donor renal transplantations (43%) and 73 cadaveric renal transplantations (57%). The youngest cadaveric donor was 3 years old, and the oldest was 86. Fifteen of the cadaveric donors had blood creatinine levels around 1.5 g/dL. The highest level of creatinine from cadaveric donors was 5.1 g/dL.
  
  
  CONCLUSIONS
  Living donor renal transplantations have higher success rate than cadaveric renal transplantations. Ureteroneocystostomy and native ureteropyelostomy seem to be safe and efficient treatment methods for ureteral complications. High creatinine levels in marginal donors do not affect graft function in early stages.
authors.affiliation: Transplantation Center, Sanko University School of Medicine, Gaziantep, Turkey. Electronic address: drerdaluysal@hotmail.com.
authors.forename: E
authors.initials: E
authors.lastname: Uysal
authors.affiliation: Department of General Surgery, Sanko University School of Medicine, Gaziantep, Turkey.
authors.forename: O A
authors.initials: OA
authors.lastname: Gurer
authors.affiliation: Transplantation Center, Sanko University School of Medicine, Gaziantep, Turkey.
authors.forename: M F
authors.initials: MF
authors.lastname: Yuzbasioglu
authors.affiliation: Transplantation Center, Sanko University School of Medicine, Gaziantep, Turkey.
authors.forename: H
authors.initials: H
authors.lastname: Guzel
authors.affiliation: Zirve University, Faculty of Health Science, Gaziantep, Turkey.
authors.forename: N
authors.initials: N
authors.lastname: Ulutasdemir
authors.affiliation: Department of Emergency Medicine, Sanko University School of Medicine, Gaziantep, Turkey.
authors.forename: M
authors.initials: M
authors.lastname: Dokur
mesh_terms: D000293:Adolescent; D000328:Adult; D000368:Aged; D051799:Delayed Graft Function / Q000453:epidemiology; D005260:Female; D006085:Graft Survival; D006785:Hospitals, University / Q000706:statistics & numerical data*; D006801:Humans; D015994:Incidence; D007676:Kidney Failure, Chronic / Q000601:surgery*; D016030:Kidney Transplantation / Q000379:methods*; D008297:Male; D008875:Middle Aged; D012189:Retrospective Studies; D014019:Tissue Donors; D014421:Turkey / Q000453:epidemiology; D055815:Young Adult