TY - JOUR
T1 - Ten-yr results of the trans-Atlantic kidney transplant airlift between the Dutch Caribbean and the Netherlands
AU - Minnee, Robert C.
AU - Lardy, Neubury
AU - Ajubi, Nouaf
AU - Idu, Mirza M.
AU - Kock, Romeo V.
AU - Legemate, Dink A.
AU - van Donselaar-van der Pant, Karlijn A. M. I.
AU - Bemelman, Frederike J.
PY - 2011
Y1 - 2011
N2 - The prevalence of end-stage renal failure in Curacao (Dutch Caribbean) is one of the highest in the world. In 1998, the St. Elisabeth Hospital started a unique trans-Atlantic collaboration with the Academic Medical Center in Amsterdam, the Netherlands, and the Eurotransplant Foundation. The partnership aimed to achieve a structured transplantation program for patients in the Dutch Caribbean, who otherwise would need lifelong dialysis. This study is an analysis of the 10-yr transplantation results of this trans-Atlantic program. In 41 consecutive transplantations performed between January 1998 and April 2007, one-yr graft survival and complication rates were retrospectively studied. Twenty-four men and 17 women with a median age of 54 were transplanted. The median dialysis period prior to transplantation was 6.8 yr. The one-yr graft survival rate was 69% (95% confidence interval: 52-80%). Initially 28 grafts functioned (68%); four grafts showed primary non-function (10%) and delayed graft function developed in nine patients (22%). Ten recipients had 16 post-operative complications. Our trans-Atlantic program affords patients with end-stage renal failure, who otherwise would need lifelong dialysis, a chance to be transplanted
AB - The prevalence of end-stage renal failure in Curacao (Dutch Caribbean) is one of the highest in the world. In 1998, the St. Elisabeth Hospital started a unique trans-Atlantic collaboration with the Academic Medical Center in Amsterdam, the Netherlands, and the Eurotransplant Foundation. The partnership aimed to achieve a structured transplantation program for patients in the Dutch Caribbean, who otherwise would need lifelong dialysis. This study is an analysis of the 10-yr transplantation results of this trans-Atlantic program. In 41 consecutive transplantations performed between January 1998 and April 2007, one-yr graft survival and complication rates were retrospectively studied. Twenty-four men and 17 women with a median age of 54 were transplanted. The median dialysis period prior to transplantation was 6.8 yr. The one-yr graft survival rate was 69% (95% confidence interval: 52-80%). Initially 28 grafts functioned (68%); four grafts showed primary non-function (10%) and delayed graft function developed in nine patients (22%). Ten recipients had 16 post-operative complications. Our trans-Atlantic program affords patients with end-stage renal failure, who otherwise would need lifelong dialysis, a chance to be transplanted
U2 - https://doi.org/10.1111/j.1399-0012.2010.01239.x
DO - https://doi.org/10.1111/j.1399-0012.2010.01239.x
M3 - Article
C2 - 20331691
SN - 0902-0063
VL - 25
SP - 302
EP - 307
JO - Clinical transplantation
JF - Clinical transplantation
IS - 2
ER -