• Marco Antonio Ayala-García, Ernesto Díaz-Chávez, Joel Máximo Soel-Encalada, Abel Orozco-Mosqueda, María Haydée Balandrán-Ortiz, Silvia Rebeca Ceja-Guzmán, Saulit Garcidueñas-Garcidueñas, Gilberto Flores-Vargas, and Eduardo Guaní-Guerra.
• Instituto Mexicano del Seguro Social, Hospital General Regional 58, Departamento de Cirugía; Guanajuato, México.
• Gac Med Mex. 2020 Jan 1; 156 (1): 34-39.

IntroductionThe Bajío High Specialty Regional Hospital started operating in 2007 to tackle the health demands of 5.8 million inhabitants. It has 184 beds and a transplant unit with 26 beds. In 2008, the renal transplant program launched activities.ObjectiveTo describe the survival of kidney transplant receptor patients and of the grafted kidney at the Bajío High Specialty Regional Hospital.MethodsRetrospective cohort study, where consecutive transplants carried out between 2008 and 2016 were included. Statistical analysis was performed using the Kaplan-Meier method.ResultsA total of 837 transplants were analyzed. Graft survival censored for death, with a functional graft at 1 and 5 years, was 94.6% and 78.9%. Patient survival at 1 and 5 years was 95.4% and 88.1%.ConclusionsThe renal transplant program is one of the the best programs established in Mexico, both for the number of deceased-donor kidney transplants performed and for the patient and graft survival achieved. These data indicate that the renal transplant program has had a sustained development.Copyright: © 2019 Permanyer.

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