The number of kidney transplant recipients returning to dialysis after graft failure is steadily
increasing over time. Patients with a failed kidney transplant have been shown to have a …

The number of patients reinitiating dialysis after a failed transplant increases over time and
has more than doubled between the year 1988 and 2010 (an increase from 2463 to 5588) …

Worldwide, over 1300 pediatric kidney transplantations are performed every year. Since the
first transplantation in 1959, healthcare has evolved dramatically. Pre-emptive …

Human leukocyte antigen (HLA) sensitisation occurs after transfusion of blood products and
transplantation. It can also happen spontaneously through cross-sensitisation from infection …

Retransplantation accounts for approximately 15% of the annual transplants performed in
the USA, and in the recent International Collaborative Transplant Study report on pediatric …

Kidney transplantation is the best health option for patients with end-stage kidney disease.
Ideally, a kidney transplant would last for the lifetime of each recipient. However, depending …

Despite the advances in renal transplantation over the last decades, chronic allograft
dysfunction remains the largest concern for patients, their families, clinicians and other …

Kidney transplantation is considered a definitive modality of kidney replacement therapy.
Living-related and preemptive renal transplantation is one of the crucial factors allowing …

Kidney transplantation is recognised as the gold standard treatment of end-stage renal
disease in most children, with excellent graft survival rates. When graft failure occurs, renal …

Pediatric kidney transplant recipients will likely require a retransplant in their lifetime.
Although the significant advances in clinical management and newer immunosuppressive …