[33 years kidney transplantation in Zurich]. / 33 Jahre Nierentransplantation in Zürich.

This article summarizes our experience with renal transplantation over the past 33 years and shows progressive improvement of the clinical outcome over time. In parallel we observed an increasing proportion of elderly recipients and diabetics. The increasing shortage of cadaver grafts was compensated by using donor hearts from legally dead donors (heart no longer beating) and establishing a living donor program.