Renal transplantation in Australia and New Zealand 1963 to 1999.

: The main feature of transplantation in Australia and New Zealand over the last few years has been the increasing proportion of living donor transplants on the background of a cadaveric organ donation rate, which is very low by international standards. The increase in living donor transplants has occurred predominantly as a result of an increase in the number of unrelated grafts. The success rate in transplantation in Australia is excellent with a one-year primary cadaveric graft survival rate of around 90% for each year since 1994 to the present. The accumulated one-year graft survival for unrelated living-donor grafts performed between 1990-1999 was 91.6%, which compares favourably with graft survival for all cadaveric grafts over the same period of 86.5%.