RISK-FACTORS IN BILATERAL-NEPHRECTOMY AS A METHOD FOR PREPARATION OF PATIENTS FOR KIDNEY-TRANSPLANTATION

In the period from April 1965 to August 1988 the kidneys of 65 patient s were removed in the pretransplantation period in the Department of K idney Transplantation of the All-Union Research Center of Surgery, AMS USSR. The operation was undertaken for the hypertonic form of chronic glomerulonephritis in 36 and for pyelonephritis and polycystic diseas e of the kidneys in 34 patients. The effect of anemia and hypoproteine mia on postoperative lethality was analysed. A direct correlative depe ndence between the postoperative lethality and the above-listed factor s was detected. The results of the study provide evidence of the impor tance of the effect of the character of the preoperative preparation o n the results of nephrectomy in the early postoperative period.