From the Department of Vascular Surgery, Shahid Beheshti University of Medical Sciences, Tehran, Islamic Republic of Iran
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Two hundred cases of renal transplantation from living donors are
reported from Shahid Hashemi Nejad Medical'Center in Iran. There were
127 male and 73 female patients with 67% in the third and fourth decade of
life. All patients received grafts from living donors with 1 14 cases of HLA
haploidentical, 55 cases of HLA identical matches and 24 unrelated donors.
One year patient and graft survival were 94. 3% and 88.6% respectively.
Despite the wartime conditions and lack of many modern facilities, the
results are quite satisfactory and comparable to many other centers in the
world. It seems more logical to replace costly chronic hemodialysis by renal
transplantation programs in the Middle East and North African countries
through planned and cooperative programs.