Kidney Transplantation in Uremic Children with Cystinosis
作者:
Robert P. Langlois,
Sean O’Regan,
Micheline Pelletier,
Pierre Robitaille,
期刊:
Nephron
(Karger Available online 1981)
卷期:
Volume 28,
issue 6
页码: 273-275
ISSN:1660-8151
年代: 1981
DOI:10.1159/000182217
出版商: S. Karger AG
关键词: Childhood cystinosis;Renal transplantation;Intratubular crystals
数据来源: Karger
摘要:
10 children underwent cadaveric renal transplantation between the ages of 8.0 and 12.5 years for uremia secondary to infantile cystinosis. 6 children are doing well 6–62 months after-transplantation. 3 of the 4 other recipients required a second graft and eventually died of uremia or fulminant viral encephalitis, the other lost her first graft due to accelerated acute rejection and is now on maintenance hemodialysis. No further systemic complications of cystinosis have been observed in the patients with functioning grafts. Our experience confirms that kidney transplantation is the treatment of choice for uremic children with infantile cystinosi
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