Characteristics of kidney transplantation recipients over time in South Korea.

ABSTRACT:

Background/aims

Detailed nationwide information regarding the recent status and time trends of kidney transplantation (KT) in South Korea is limited.

Methods

We performed a nationwide, population-based cohort study using the national claims database of Korea. We included KT recipients from 2008 to 2016, and their demographic and clinical characteristics were collected. The prognostic outcome was graft failure consisted of patient death and death-censored graft failure (DCGF).

Results

We studied 14,601 KT recipients with median follow-up duration of 3.96 years. The median age at the time of transplantation consistently increased from the past, and proportion of underlying diabetes mellitus prominently increased, reaching 35.6% in 2016. The preemptive KT accounted for a

SUBMITTER: Park S 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC7652657 | biostudies-literature | 2020 Nov

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature