Youhua Zhu, Lei Zhang, Zhilian Min, Changmin He
Between June 1978 and June 2014, 4,199 kidney transplants were performed at the Transplantation Center of PLA, Changzheng Hospital, Second Military Medical University. In our initial practice period (1978-1985), graft and patient survivals were 48.2% and 56.5%, 27.3% and 31.7%, 22.5% and 24.4%, 20.1% and 23.2%, and 16.5% and 20.8%, at 1, 5, 10, 15, and 20 years, respectively. These results improved tremendously after cyclosporine A (1986-1998) was used at our center. The rates of 1-, 5-, 10-, 15-, and 20-year graft and patient survival were 84...
2014: Clinical Transplants