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Introduction: Early acute rejection episodes (ARE) have deleterious effects on graft outcomes. The incidence of ARE in the first 3 months has been reported to be <20%. In a recent audit of ARE among 100 renal transplants, we observed the rates to be high (30%).

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High incidence of post-transplant diabetes mellitus in Kuwait.

Diabetes Res Clin Pract

February 2002

Department of Medicine, Faculty of Medicine, Mubarak Al-Kabeer Hospital and Hamad Al-Essa Organ Transplant Centre, PO Box 24923, Safat, Kuwait.

Post-transplant diabetes mellitus (PTDM) has been reported to occur in 5-15% of non-diabetic renal transplant recipients. During a 15-year period (January 1983-January 1998), 631 renal transplant recipients (TxR) were followed-up in our Centre of whom 79 (12.5%) had pre-transplant diabetes mellitus.

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