PT  - JOURNAL ARTICLE
AU  - J. R. Jeffery
AU  - T. A. Hutchinson
AU  - G. S. Arbus
AU  - G. A. Posen
TI  - Kidney transplantation in Canada, 1981-84
DP  - 1986 Oct 01
TA  - Canadian Medical Association Journal
PG  - 769--772
VI  - 135
IP  - 7
4099  - http://www.cmaj.ca/content/135/7/769.short
4100  - http://www.cmaj.ca/content/135/7/769.full
SO  - CMAJ1986 Oct 01; 135
AB  - The Canadian Renal Failure Register was established in 1980. Data have been collected annually for all Canadian patients in whom irreversible kidney failure developed and who required dialysis or transplantation. The authors present actuarial patient and graft survival rates for 1981-84. In 1984, patients with a functioning renal graft accounted for 43.9% of the patients with end-stage renal disease. The number of transplants performed increased from 482 in 1981 to 662 in 1984; however, 1,022 patients undergoing dialysis (25.2%) were on an active waiting list for a transplant at the end of 1984. Greater effort is needed to increase the transplantation rate.