Favorable outcomes After Renal Transplantation in Patients With Diabetes Mellitus

Diabetes is a common cause of end-stage renal disease. Compared to hemodialysis, renal transplantation has been shown to prolong life of diabetic patients with endstage renal disease (1). Due to the shortage of donor kidneys, whether transplantation should be performed for diabetic patients who have low survival expectancy or for patients with end-stage renal disease due to other causes is a debated issue (2). The literature has been divided on this issue; some authors have reported worse longterm outcomes after renal transplantation for diabetes, whereas others have reported that the outcomes of renal transplantation for diabetic recipients were similar to those for non-diabetic recipients (2-4).