Influence of early graft function after renal transplantation and its impact on long-term graft and patient survival.

Abstract Objective To determine whether early graft function after transplantation impacted graft and patient survivals. Materials and methods Between 1981 and 2008, we performed 1308 renal transplantations. Poor early graft function was defined as a Cockroft-Gault glomerular filtration rate Results Of the 1308 patients 994 (78.8%) displayed poor early graft function at 1 month after transplantation (glomerular filtration rate Conclusion This study suggested that the quality of early graft function had no significant effect on graft and patient survival rate, but did have a significant influence on long-term renal function.