World kidney day 2010: medical aspects of 10 live-donor renal transplantations in a single center from a developing country.

BACKGROUND

World Kidney Day (WKD) has become the most widely celebrated event associated with kidney disease in the world and the most successful effort to raise awareness among both the general public and government health officials about the dangers of kidney disease. We celebrated WKD 2010 in a unique way by performing 10 live-donor renal transplantations (RTx) on March 11, 2010.

PATIENTS AND

METHODS

We report a single-center experience on RTx vis-à-vis patient/graft survival, graft function in terms of serum creatinine (SCr) level, and rejection episodes in 10 live-donor RTx performed on WKD. Recipient diseases leading to end-stage renal disease (ESRD) were chronic glomerulonephritis (60%), benign nephrosclerosis (20%), and chronic interstitial nephritis (20%). Mean recipient age was 35 ± 8.7 years. Nine recipients were males. Mean donor age was 37 ± 8.7 years, Nine donors were females. Donors were spouse (n = 6), mother (n = 2), sister (n = 1), and extended family member (n = 1), with mean HLA match 1.8 ± 1.48. All patients received steroids, calcinueurin inhibitors, and mycophenolate mofetil/azathioprime for maintenance immunosuppression.

RESULTS

During a mean follow-up time of 18 months, patient and graft survival rates were 90% and 90%, respectively, with a mean SCr level of 1.21 mg/dL; 20% had biopsy-proven acute rejection. One patient died due to infection after antirejection therapy.

CONCLUSION

RTx has acceptable graft and patient survival. RTx is the best cost-effective therapeutic modality for patients suffering from ESRD and should be encouraged in view of organ shortage on events such as WKD. To our knowledge, this is the first report from a developing country on 10 successful RTx on WKD.