Impact of pretransplant exposure to allosensitization factors generating HLA antibodies in the Luminex era.

Aim: To identify the frequency of exposure to sensitizing factors and evaluate the risk ascribable to each sensitizing factor generating HLAabs measured by Luminex.

Methods: This is a retrospective cohort study that included 502 transplanted patients and 51 patients on the waiting list for a deceased donor graft. Patients were divided into 4 groups according to the %PRA: 0%, 1 to 19%, 20 to 49% and ≥50%.

[Kidney transplantation: consecutive one thousand transplants at National Institute of Medical Sciences and Nutrition Salvador Zubirán in Mexico City].

Introduction: The National Institute of Medical Sciences and Nutrition Salvador Zubiran (INCMNSZ) is a specialty hospital for adults and a teaching hospital, which performed the first kidney transplant in 1967; in 1971 it began the formal program of renal transplantation. Recently, it was performed the kidney transplant number 1000, so this article presents the information of these thousand kidney transplants, with special emphasis on survival.

Material And Methods: Retrospective cohort study which included 1000 consecutive transplants performed at the INCMNSZ between 1967 and June 2011.