Patient and graft outcome after living donor renal transplantation in Iran: more than 15-year follow-up

KIDNEY transplantation is the treatment of choice for end-stage renal disease. A successful kidney transplant improves the quality of life and reduces the mortality risk for most patients when compared with maintenance dialysis. Renal transplantation has a background of more than 35 years in Iran. More than 12,000 renal transplantations have been performed in this country. We conducted this study to present a brief report of a large number of living donor renal transplants in the two main transplantation centers in Tehran with more than 15 years follow up.