This study was undertaken to describe the association of patient race/ethnicity and renal allograft survival among the national cohort of pediatric renal allograft recipients. Additionally, we determined whether racial and ethnic differences in graft survival exist among individuals living in low- or high-poverty neighborhoods and those with private or public insurance. Among 6216 incident, ped...

INTRODUCTION There is no published epidemiological data on skin diseases in kidney transplant recipients in this tropical country, which has multi-ethnic groups with the Chinese as the predominant ethnic group. MATERIALS AND METHODS Skin diseases of 143 renal transplant recipients were studied in a skin clinic of a tertiary institution during annual surveillance visits from June 2006 to March...

The aim of our study is to determine characteristics and outcomes of kidney cancer in renal transplant recipients. MEDLINE® database was searched in June 2015 to identify cases of kidney cancer in renal transplant recipients. We include also a new case. Descriptive statistics were used for analysis. Forty-eight (48) recipients reported in 25 papers met the eligibility criteria. The median age w...

Dyslipidemia is a frequent complication after kidney transplantation (KT) and an important risk factor for cardiovascular disease (CVD). Renal transplant recipients (RTRs) are considered at high, or very of CVD, which leading cause death in this patient group. Despite many factors post-transplant dyslipidemia, the immunosuppressive treatment has biggest influence on lipid profile. There no stri...

Graft site candidiasis is a rare but life-threatening complication of renal transplant. We report the course and management of 2 renal transplant recipients, using kidneys from a single donor, both of whom developed vascular complications secondary to Candida infection.

Recent evidence suggested that the efficacy of folic acid supplementation in reducing plasma total homocysteine (Hcy) concentration might be similar in renal transplant recipients (RTR) and chronic kidney disease (CKD) patients with a comparable degree of reduction of renal function. However, a direct comparison of the response to high dose folic acid supplementation between renal transplant re...