Live longer with kidney transplant

Wisit Cheungpasitporn

Survival Compared with diaysis

• Longer Life with a Transplant• On the other hand, patients who receive a kidney

transplant typically live longer than those who stay on dialysis. A living donor kidney functions, on average, 12 to 20 years, and a deceased donor kidney from 8 to 12 years.

• Patients who get a kidney transplant before dialysis live an average of 10 to 15 years longer than if they stayed on dialysis. Younger adults benefit the most from a kidney transplant, but even adults as old as 75 gain an average of four more years after a transplant than if they had stayed on dialysis.

N Engl J Med. 1999 Dec 2;341(23):1725-30.

Patient Survival Rates for Dialysis and Transplant Patients

• At 85.5 percent, the 5-year survival rate for transplant patients is more than twice the 35.8 percent survival rate for dialysis patients.

National Kidney and Urologic DiseasesInformation Clearinghouse (NKUDIC)

• For recipients of a living donor kidney, patient survival rate at five years posttransplantation is 91 percent.

• For those who receive a deceased non-extended criteria donor transplant, the survival rate is 84 percent.

• For those who receive a deceased extended criteria donor transplants, the respective value is 70 percent.

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Am J Transplant. 2009;9(4 Pt 2):894.