Annals of Transplantation
Volume 15, Issue 2, 2010, Pages 55-60

Kidney transplantation in Afghan refugees residing in iran: The first report of survival analysis (Article)

Lankarani M.M. , Assari S.* , Kardavani B. , Einollahi B.
  • a Medicine and Health Promotion Institute, Tehran, Iran, Universal Network for Health Information Dissemination and Exchange (UNHIDE)
  • b Medicine and Health Promotion Institute, Tehran, Iran, Universal Network for Health Information Dissemination and Exchange (UNHIDE)
  • c Medicine and Health Promotion Institute, Tehran, Iran, Universal Network for Health Information Dissemination and Exchange (UNHIDE)
  • d Clinical Research Unit, Baqyiatallah University of Medical Sciences, Tehran, Iran, Nephrology Urology Research Center, Baqyiatallah University of Medical Sciences, Tehran, Iran

Abstract

Background: We report, for the first time, the data on the outcome of kidney transplantation activities in the Afghan population from Iran. Material/Method: We extracted the demographic, clinical and the outcome related data of all Afghan kidney transplanted patients, from 1998 to April 2006, from the United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees (UNHCR) and the Dialysis and Transplant Patients Association (DATPA) databases. Results: During this period 103 Afghan patients (70.9% male, 29.1% female) underwent renal transplantation in Iran. The mean age at transplantation was 32.7 years. The kidney sources were living unrelated donors (LURD) in 82.5%, living related donors (LRD) in 15.5% and cadaver in 2% patients. The graft and patient survival rates for 1, 3 and 5 years were 97 and 98, 86 and 95, 73 and 95 percent, respectively. Conclusions: Both graft and patient survival rates were good and comparable to those reported previously in Iranian patients. © Ann Transplant, 2010.

Author Keywords

Outcome Refugees Survival analysis Kidney transplantation

Index Keywords

Afghanistan refugee survival survival analysis human epidemiology Refugees middle aged statistics and numerical data Aged ethnology Iran Young Adult Humans Adolescent Treatment Outcome male graft survival female Article Retrospective Studies major clinical study adult Kidney Failure, Chronic Kidney Transplantation retrospective study mortality Child
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ISSN: 14259524
Cited by: 4
Original Language: English