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AMC becomes 1st Korean hospital performing 6,000 kidney transplants 
  • By Kwak Sung-sun
  • Published 2020.08.18 15:12
  • Updated 2020.08.18 15:12
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Asan Medical Center (AMC) said its kidney transplantation team has achieved the 6,000th kidney transplantation by placing a brain-dead donor’s kidney to a 38-year-old male patient with end-stage renal failure in mid-July. It was the first time in Korea that a hospital’s kidney transplants surpassed 6,000, AMC said.

AMC’s annual kidney transplants exceeded 400 in 2019, one in five domestic kidney transplants in Korea.

Asan Medical Center’s kidney transplantation team performs the 6,000th kidney transplant. (AMC)

A total of 2,293 kidney transplants were performed in Korea in 2019, of which 409 were performed at AMC, according to the Korea Centers for Disease Control and Prevention’s National Institute of Organ and Tissue Blood Management.

AMC’s kidney transplantation team said the one-year, five-year, and 10-year survival rates of kidneys transplanted in 6,000 patients from 1990 to 2020 recorded 98.5 percent, 90 percent, and 77.1 percent, respectively. These numbers were almost equivalent to those announced by the United Network for Organ Sharing (UNOS) – one-year graft survival rate at 99.9 percent and five-year, 85.4 percent -- AMC said.

AMC attributed the successful results of kidney transplantations to the hospital’s multidisciplinary system, where specialists from departments of transplant surgery, kidney medicine, infectious medicine, and diagnostic laboratory work together to manage patients.

Since the first ABO-incompatible kidney transplant in 2009, AMC has performed 728 ABO-incompatible kidney transplants so far. The hospital offered 98 ABO-incompatible kidney transplants in 2019, which was on third of the total kidney transplants from live donors at AMC last year.

The one-year and five-year graft survival rates of ABO-incompatible kidney transplants stood at 97.4 percent and 92.3 percent, respectively, which showed almost no difference when compared to survival rates of ABO-compatible kidney transplants.

Among 6,000 patients who received kidneys, only less than 1 percent lost kidney function due to surgery-related complications.

AMC’s kidney transplantation team also analyzed the cause of diseases among the 6,000 kidney recipients. According to the team, out of 3,260 patients who had a kidney transplant in the past 10 years, 41 percent received the surgery because of chronic diseases such as diabetes and hypertension.

Compared to the causes of diseases from 1990 to 2000, the proportion of diabetes and hypertension that caused kidney transplants surged.

The average age of the 6,000 kidney recipients was 44.1, and 58.7 percent of the patients were male, and the rest, 41.3 percent, female.

Among the total kidney transplants, 77 percent came from live donors, and 23 percent, brain-dead donors.

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