Transplantation and Dialysis: Recording of Transplanted Patients Who Re-Enter in Their Hemodialysis or Peritoneal Dialysis Hospitalization Units

Marilena G Koukou, Vassilios E Smyrniotis, Eirini I Grapsa and Nikolaos F Arkadopoulos

Department of Medicine, National and Kapodistrian University of Athens, Greece
Department of Surgery, National and Kapodistrian University of Athens, Greece
Department of Nephrology, National and Kapodistrian University of Athens, Greece

^*Correspondance to: Marilena G Koukou 

 PDF  Full Text DOI: 10.25107/2474-1647.2256

Abstract

Objective: In the present study, we evaluated the rate of discharges of patients who had been enrolled in a type of dialysis and had re-engaged by measuring other factors, during the years 2013-2015.Methods: We recorded the characteristics of 2.586 HD and 100 PD patients who, in some point of their life, been transplanted and needed to re-entry their hospitalization units. We compared these data with others retrieved from researches across countries of both inside and outside the European Union.Results: The mean patient age of our specimen was 68.7 ± 14.1 years, with the percentage of female gender at 36.3% (938), while the remaining 63.7% (1.648) are men. Most common ESRD cause was diabetes (32% for PD and 24% for HD patients). Employed PD patients were 35% vs. 4% of HD (p<0,001), with almost 61% (1.005) of men not smokers, while the women have a similar 79.1%.Conclusion: Although Greece has one of the smallest graft rejection rates, it does not cease to have the smallest rates of transplantation both in the rest of Europe and beyond.

Keywords

Hemodialysis; Peritoneal dialysis; Transplantation

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Koukou MG, Smyrniotis VE, Grapsa EI, Arkadopoulos NF. Transplantation and Dialysis: Recording of Transplanted Patients Who Re-Enter in Their Hemodialysis or Peritoneal Dialysis Hospitalization Units. Clin Surg. 2018; 3: 2256.