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Post-transplant complications, patient, and graft survival in pediatric and adolescent kidney transplant recipients at a tropical tertiary care center across two immunosuppression eras.

Anjali MohapatraAnna T ValsonVellaichamy M AnnapandianVinoi George DavidSuceena AlexanderShibu JacobShailesh KakdeSantosh KumarAntony DevasiaTheophilus S VijayakumarVeerasamy TamilarasiChakko Korula JacobGopal BasuGeorge Tharayil JohnSantosh Varughese
Published in: Pediatric transplantation (2021)
PAKT in India has excellent long-term graft outcomes, though patient outcomes remain suboptimal owing to a high burden of infections. Current immunosuppression protocols need to be re-examined to balance infection risk, graft, and patient survival.
Keyphrases
  • tertiary care
  • case report
  • young adults
  • risk factors
  • free survival
  • climate change
  • metabolic syndrome
  • adipose tissue
  • skeletal muscle
  • insulin resistance