Post transplant diabetes in kidney transplant recipients

ABSTRACT

This study was carried out on 300 renal transplant recipients in order to evaluate post transplant diabetes in such patients. The incidence of post transplant diabetes was 12%. No correlation could be elicited between post transplant diabetes and either age or cumulative dose of steriod therapy. There was a correlation between post transplant diabetes and positive diabetic family history. A higher incidence of HLA A3, A28 and B16 was observed among post transplant diabetics. However, the outcome of patients and graft is not affected by post transplant diabetes. Therefore, diabetes in renal transplant recepients is usually mild and there is no good reason to consider such patients at higher risk for diabetic complications