KIDNEY-TRANSPLANTATION FOR UREMIC DIABETIC PATIENT

Abstract

Although the diabetic patient is at high risk for transplantation and the progression of cardiovascular disease continues, kidney transplantation may be performed with only slightly less favorable results than in the nondiabetic patients. The survival rate achieved by diabetics who received a kidney graft was superior to that achieved by diabetic patients who received dialysis. Some of the secondary complications of diabetes, which were aggravated by uremia, were improved and successful vocational rehabilitation was possible in the majority of diabetic patients.