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All patients with end stage renal disease must be taken into consideration for transplantation, except for those at risk for another condition which endangers life. Kidney transplantation is now a common procedure: for all children older than 6 months with renal failure, kidney transplantation is the treatment of choice. A successful transplant not only frees the patient from a long dialysis, but also provides other metabolic functions of the kidney.

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The survival of patients one year after transplantation from living relative donor is> 95%, with approximately 90% of allografts functioning. Subsequently, there has been an annual loss of transplants varies from 3 to 5%, including those due to death of the patient. The one-year survival rate of patients undergoing cadaveric transplantation is approximately 90% and graft survival varies between 70 and 90%, depending on the centers. In subsequent years, you lose a 5-8% of transplants each year. At present, many renal transplant recipients are carrying bodies are working more than 30 years. Although it was previously believed that patients over 55 years, the transplant would entail an unacceptable risk, the more sophisticated use of immunosuppressive drugs and the close immunological control allow you to allografts in selected patients during the 7th decade of life and beyond. (more…)