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Welcome to the NAPRTCS Website
NAPRTCS is now known as the North American Pediatric Renal Trials and Collaborative Studies
The North American Pediatric Renal Trials and Collaborative Studies (NAPRTCS) is a research effort organized in 1987.
At the outset of the study, the operational objective of this group was to obtain the voluntary participation of all renal transplant centers in North America in which multiple (>4) pediatric patients received renal allografts annually. Scientific objectives include capture of information about current practice and trends in immunosuppressive therapy with an ultimate goal of improving care of pediatric renal allograft recipients in North America.
In 1992, the study was expanded to include pediatric patients who receive maintenance hemodialysis or peritoneal dialysis therapy. In 1994, data collection began on patients with chronic renal insufficiency (CRI), defined as a Schwartz calculated creatinine clearance < 75 ml/min/1.73 m2.
Now, not only do we hope to register and follow greater than 80% of the children receiving renal allografts in North America, but to study the clinical course and natural history of patients with renal dysfunction and to continue following these patients as they move among the end-stage renal disease (ESRD) therapeutic modalities, thus allowing the NAPRTCS to become a complete ESRD patient data system.
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