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A Study of Cases Treated With Renal Transplantation

PHILIP P. ELLIS, MD; H. A. FONKEN, MD

Arch Ophthalmol. 1966;75(1):36-41.

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Renal transplantation is being employed with increasing frequency as a treatment for patients suffering from otherwise terminal renal disease. At the University of Colorado Medical Center and the Denver Veterans Administration Hospital, a number of patients have undergone renal transplantation during the past 2 years. The ocular disorders in these patients and the changes after renal transplantation have been studied. In a preliminary report Fonken and Ellis found that a reversal of the retinopathy of chronic renal disease occurred following kidney transplantation.¹ This present report deals with the preoperative and postoperative ocular findings in 33 patients who underwent renal transplantation between November 1962 and March 1964.

Medical and Surgical Aspects

The details of medical and surgical treatment employed in renal transplantation at this institution have been described previously.^2-8 All patients in this series had serious renal failure and had been maintained on medical therapy which included frequent hemodialysis. . . . [Full Text PDF of this Article]

Author Affiliations
Denver

From the Division of Ophthalmology, University of Colorado Medical Center, Denver.

Footnotes
Submitted for publication June 9, 1965.

Reprint requests to Division of Ophthalmology, University of Colorado Medical Center, 4200 East Ninth Ave, Denver 80220. (Dr. Ellis).

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