Outcomes in Obese Kidney Transplant Recipients L.W. Gusukuma*, K.M. Harada, A.P.M. Baptista, M.R.P. Alencar, T.V. de Sandes-Freitas, H. Tedesco-Silva Jr, and J.O. Medina-Pestana Nephrology Division, Hospital do Rim e Hipertensão, Universidade Federal de São Paulo, São Paulo, Brazil
ABSTRACT Background. Kidney transplantation (KT) in obese patients is controversial. The present study aimed to evaluate patient and graft survival and post-transplantation complications between obese and nonobese recipients. Methods. Patients (n ¼ 3,054) receiving a KT from 1998 to 2008 were divided according to body mass index (BMI) into 3 groups for analysis: group I: BMI 18 years of age, who underwent renal transplantation from August 1998 to December 2008 at the
*Address correspondence to Luciana Wang Gusukuma, MD, Nephrology Division, Hospital do Rim e Hipertensão, Universidade Federal de São Paulo, Rua Borges Lagoa 960, 11 andar, CEP 04038-002, São Paulo, SP, Brazil. E-mail: luwg@ hotmail.com
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Transplantation Proceedings, 46, 3416e3419 (2014)
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Table 1. Demographic Characteristics, Patient, Graft, and Death-Censored Graft Survival Rates, and Post-transplantation Complications Among Body Mass Index (BMI) Groups BMI