RENAL TRANSPLANTATION IN SOUTH AUSTRALIA

Abstract
Sixty‐one renal transplants have been performed on 54 patients, using eight kidneys from live donors and 53 cadaveric kidneys at The Queen Elizabeth Hospital, Adelaide, South Australia, during a period of five and a half years. The overall survival of these patients is 61%, with graft survival of 50% at one year and 41% at two years, which compares favourably with the world experience as well as the combined Australasian experience. The post‐transplant complications in this group of patients are discussed.