title: Renal Transplantation - Calcutta Experience.
abstract: 31 renal transplant procedures have been performed at this centre. Renal donors were father in 4, mother in 4, brother in 12, sister in 4, brother-in-law in 1 and wives in 6 cases. Median age of recipients and donors was 35.2 years (20-55) and 38.3 years (24-60) respectively. After a mean follow up of 15.7 months (2-40), graft survival was 96.7% and patient survival 90-3%. Three patients (9.6%) required surgical re-exploration, one each for, peri-graft haematoma, arterial kink and graft artery thrombosis. 6 patients (19.3%) required anti rejection therapy with resultant complete normalisation of graft functions. Medical complications noted were post transplant diabetes mellitus in 6 (19.3%), azathihoprine induced bone marrow suppression in 1(3.2%), tuberculosis in 2 (6.4%), post transplant erythrocytosis in 2 (6.4%) and recurrent urinary tract infection (UTI) in one (3.2%) patients. 3 patients (9.6%) died with functioning graft, one due to lung infection and the other due to haemorrahagic pancreatitis and third due to infective endocarditis.
authors.affiliation: Classified Specialist (Medicine & Nephrology), Army Hospital (R&R), Delhi Cantt-110 010; Classified Specialist (Surgery & Urology), Command Hospital, (Eastern Command), Kolkata.
authors.forename: P P
authors.initials: PP
authors.lastname: Varma
authors.affiliation: Senior Advisor (Surgery & Urology), Command Hospital, (Eastern Command), Kolkata.
authors.forename: Tapan
authors.initials: T
authors.lastname: Sinha
authors.affiliation: Classified Specialist (Surgery & Urology), Command Hospital, (Eastern Command), Kolkata.
authors.forename: D
authors.initials: D
authors.lastname: Batura
authors.affiliation: Ex-Classified Specialist (Medicine & Nephrology).
authors.forename: R
authors.initials: R
authors.lastname: Malik
authors.affiliation: Classified Specialist (Medicine and Nephrology) Command Hospital (Air Force) Bangalore.
authors.forename: Rsv
authors.initials: R
authors.lastname: Kumar
authors.affiliation: Senior Adviser (Pathology and Transplant Immunology), Army Hospital (R&R), Delhi Cantt-110 010.
authors.forename: G S
authors.initials: GS
authors.lastname: Chopra
authors.forename: H S
authors.initials: HS
authors.lastname: Gill
keywords: Post-transplant complications; Renal Transplantation