Results:
A total of 264 transplant recipients who underwent bone metabolism
evaluation during the study period was under steroid treatment as immune
suppression.
Twelve percent of our cohort consisted of cadaver kidney recipients
(n=32). The most common etiologies for primary kidney diseases were as
follows diabetes mellitus in 16.3% (n=43), glomerulonephritis in 23.5%
(n=62), hypertensive nephropathy in 19.3% (n=51), polycystic kidney
disease in 11.4% (n=30) and unknown etiology in 29.5% (n=78) of the
patients.