Survival Rates of Patients Treated by Home and Hospital Dialysis and Cadaveric Renal Transplantation

Abstract

Of 109 patients admitted to the renal failure programme of the Royal Free Hospital 80–7% were surviving after six years. For patients on home dialysis the four–year rate was 86.2% more deaths occurring in women than in men. The short–term survival rate of all patients was high—namely, 96–3% at six months and 94.4% at 12 months. Hence large increases in the rate of acceptance of patients as well as successful transplantation are necessary to balance acceptance and loss from this programme. © 1970, British Medical Journal Publishing Group. All rights reserved.