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Abstract
Schistosomiasis is a major disease of public health importance in some parts of the world. It was estimated that over one thousand million people living in endemic areas are exposed to schistosomiasis and that 200 million are actually infected. It is reported that schistosomiasis can result in immune complex glomerulopathy, also it is known that schistosomiasis affect the cell me,diated immune response. Furthermore, S. haematobium causes urinary tract disease. The objective of this work is to study the long term impact of schistosomiasis on patient and graft outcome after kidney In this work 243 living related kidney transplant recipients were followed up retrospectively for a period of 10 years. The patients were classified into two groups. The first group included 136 cases with definite diagnosis of schistosomiasis and the second group comprised 107 cases who were definitely non schistosoma!. In the schistosomal group, schistosomal specific glomerulopathy was documented as an aetiologic cause of ESRD in 5 cases, definite schistosomal bladder lesions were documented in 58 recipients and bilharzial ureteral lesions were detected in 26 donors.