Cadaveric Donor Kidney Transplantation: Review of 39 Cases

Abstract

OWING to the affect of Confucian body concept, any injury of body, even dead body, was thoroughly prohibited in Korea. As a result, cremation and autopsy was rare. Also rare was cadaveric organ donation. But due to ceaseless enlightenment on organ donation, cadaveric renal transplantation has increased steadily. In Korea, laws for brain death are set to be executed in 2000, and increment of cadaveric renal transplantation is expected. Thirty-nine cadaveric renal transplantation were performed in our hospital beginning in 1994. To improve the graft survival in cadaveric renal transplantation, various factors that affect the results of allograft function have been analyzed and reported.