Factors affecting growth after renal transplantation in children

Abstract

Growth retardation is one of the most severe complications in children with chronic kidney disease. The low height has significant effects on the quality of life and self-confidence of patients with renal transplants. Growth after transplantation is affected by many factors: age at transplantation; degree of pre-transplantation growth deficit; kind, dosage and regimen of the immunosuppressive therapy; the function and the kind of the graft.