Surgical factors influencing graft survival of 200 renal transplantations

Chae, In Young; Rhew, Hyun Yul

Abstract

Many factors are thought to be affecting to the graft and patient survival. We have analyzed our surgical 200 renal transplantation performed at Kosin Medical Center. Pusan, Korea from December l984 to May 1990. Overall 1 and 3 years graft and patient survival rates were 91.9%, 94.2% 83.6%. and 93.0% respectively. Arterial spasm was occurred in four cases but the difference of occurrence or acute tubular necrosis and graft survival rate were not significant statistically. End to side arterial anastomosis was performed in four cases. Polar artery was ligated in four cases. Average total ischemic time was 50.7 minutes There was no loss of graft loss due to urological complications. We found that there was no notable significance of these selected surgical factors which influencing patient and graft survival at our Medical Center.