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Through   four  years  period  of  time ( from 1994 to 1998 ) , 116 renal    transplants performed in Ekbatan Hospital.          In the period, all transplants selected from living donors. In our cases ,    one  year   graft  survival  was  96.5%.  In  the period of the study 95.6% of    grafts   were   functioning .   Majority   of  complications  were  infectious ,    numerically 23% . In  the study group the mortality rate from grafts of men    to women was 2%. For  men to men was 6.7%and there was no death for    graft of  women to women and to men.  Average age of  recipents  was    37  and  for  donor  it  was  34  years . The  best  results  of  transplantation    obtained  from  donor  who  were in the age group of  20 - 30 years  old ,     that  took  place  without  complication of renal failure o r death . In  this    study five patients died. The causes of  death  were  as follow:    one patient  from  lip  carcinoma , one patient  due  to  pneumonia , the    third patient from  ancephalopathy , forth patient from pulmonary failure    and finally one patient from diabetes complication.