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MEDICAL SCIENCES 2017, 27(2): 77-87 Back to browse issues page
Assessment of factors affecting kidney transplant survival based on ‎literature review between 2000 and 2014‎
Reza Rabiei1 , Hamid Moghaddasi2 , Ali Akbar Khadem Maboudi2 , Abbas Basiri3 , Shahabedin Rahmatizadeh 4
1- Department of Health Information Technology and Management, School of Allied Medical Sciences, Shahid ‎Beheshti University of Medical Sciences, Tehran, Iran
2- Department of Biostatistics, School of Allied Medical Sciences, Shahid Beheshti University of Medical ‎Sciences, Tehran, Iran
3- Department of Urology, Urology and Nephrology Research Center, Shahid Labbafinejad Medical Center, ‎Shahid Beheshti University of Medical Sciences, Tehran, Iran
4- Department of Health Information Technology and Management, School of Allied Medical Sciences, Shahid ‎Beheshti University of Medical Sciences, Tehran, Iran , sh.rahmatizadeh@sbmu.ac.ir
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Background: Improvements in immune-suppressing drugs have a short-term effect on kidney ‎transplants but do not have much long-term effect. In order to increase the duration of kidney ‎transplant survival, understanding the significant parameters is of great importance. This study aims to ‎identify key parameters (before the transplant occurs) which affect kidney transplant survival. ‎ Materials and methods: To conduct this review, the scientific databases was searched and more ‎than 200 related titles were retrieved; and the abstracts were reviewed to determine which studies ‎were relevant to the study. The literature analysis was based on the goals of the studies themselves, ‎the number of citations, and the reliability of the sources cited. Ultimately, 60 studies included for ‎further analysis. ‎ Results: Based on the frequency of each parameter which influenced graft survival, the following ‎parameters were determined to have higher frequencies compared to other parameters, with regards to ‎survival time of the kidney transplant: the ages of the donor and recipient, socioeconomic status, ‎immune-suppressing drugs, HLA matching, time on the waiting list, live or deceased donor, the decade ‎in which the operation occurred, cold ischemia time, and reaction to antibiotics. ‎ Conclusion: The influence of some of the kidney transplant survival parameters was acknowledged in ‎the majority of studies; however, some parameters have been the subject of disagreement among ‎studies. In order to resolve this issue, we suggest a search of international data and meta-analysis of ‎current literature to better understand the parameters of kidney transplant survival.‎ Keywords: Kidney transplant, Kidney transplant survival, Factors affecting kidney transplant ‎survival.‎
Keywords: Kidney transplant, Kidney transplant survival, Factors affecting kidney transplant survival.‎
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Received: 2016/11/29 | Accepted: 2017/04/16 | Published: 2017/06/19


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