Pediatric renal transplantation: Personal experience

KIDNEY TRANSPLANTATION is the elective treatment for end-stage renai disease (ESRD) in children. Despite technical improvement, hemodialysis and peritoneal dialysis are not able to ensure a satisfying rehabilitation of uremie children due to the impossibility to achieve an optimal hormonometabolic control, resulting in insufficient growth of the child. The improvement of surgical techniques and intra- and postoperative care, and the introduction of new immunosuppressive protocols, allowed in recent years a significant increase of patient and graft survival.1 Furthermore, an effective graft function allows a better quality of life for the child, which is followed by increased growth2 and improved physical development. The aim of this study is to describe the experience of 64 pediatrie kidney transplants in 64 recipients. These transplants were performed at the University of Rome La Sapienza from 1973 to May 1995