Identification of Risk Factors for Vascular Thrombosis May Reduce Early Renal Graft Loss: A Review of Recent Literature

Table 2

Pediatric patients: RAT: Renal artery thrombosis, RVT: Renal vein thrombosis, *: % deceased, mc: multicenter, c.s.: case series, N/A: not available.

Author	Nationality	Year	N	Recipient age	Donor*	RAT + RVT	RAT	RVT	Study design
Harmon [26]	USA, NAPRTCS	1987–1989	1045	0–17	54	2.6% (27)	N/A	N/A	Prospective, mc.
van Lieburg [27]	Holland, Nijmegen	1977–1990	100	children	93	12% (12)	4% (4)	7% (7)	Retrospective
McEnery [28]	USA; NAPRTCS	1987–1992	2193	0–17	55	3.2% (71)	N/A	N/A	Prospective, mc.
Johnson [29]	UK, Ireland	1986–1995	1252	<18	100	4.0% (50)	N/A	N/A	Prospective, mc.
Ismail [30]	Poland, Warsaw	1984–1995	176	1–18	92	4.0% (7)	1.7% (3)	2.7% (4)	Retrospective
Kamel [31]	Ireland, Dublin	1986–1998	120	1–17	100	5% (6)	0.8% (1)	4.2% (5)	Prospective
Adams [8]	Germany, Heidelberg	1977–1998	61	1–6	77	13.1% (8)	4.9% (3)	8.2% (5)	Retrospective
Nagra [32]	UK, London	1987–2000	254	1–16	75	9.8% (25)	N/A	N/A	Retrospective
McDonald [7]	USA; NAPRTCS	1987–2001	7247	0–17	47	2.7% (199)	N/A	N/A	Prospective, mc.
Mickelson [33]	Canada, Vancouver	1984–2003	24	1–6	71	4.2% (1)	4.2% (1)	N/A	Retrospective
Kranz [34]	Germany, Essen	1998–2003	66	children	74	0	0	0	Prospective
El-Husseini [35]	Egypt, Mansoura	1976–2004	216	5–18	0	0	0	0	Consecutive c.s.
Garcia [36]	Brazil, Porto Alegre	1989–2005	40	1–5	25	10% (4)	7.5% (3)	2.5% (1)	N/A