ABO-incompatible living-donor pediatric kidney transplantation in Japan

• Main Authors: Atsushi Aikawa, Takeshi Kawamura, Seichiro Shishido, Kazuhide Saito, Kota Takahashi
• Format: Article
• Language: English
• Published: Faculdade de Medicina / USP 2014-01-01
• Series: Clinics
• Subjects: ABO-incompatible; Living-donor kidney transplantation; Pediatrics
• Online Access: http://www.scielo.br/scielo.php?script=sci_arttext&pid=S1807-59322014001300022&lng=en&tlng=en

The Japanese ABO-Incompatible Transplantation Committee officially collected and analyzed data on pediatric ABO-incompatible living-donor kidney transplantation in July 2012. The age of a child was defined as <16 years, and 89 children who had undergone ABO-incompatible living-donor kidney transplantation from 1989 to 2011 were entered in a registry. These data were presented as the Japanese registry of pediatric ABO-incompatible living-donor kidney transplantation at the regional meetings of the International Pediatric Transplantation Association (IPTA) in Nagoya in September 2012 and in Sao Paulo in November 2012.