246 patients received kidney transplant, corresponding to 14 patients pmp. Dialysis treatment provided in the Great S o Paulo is satisfactory. End-stage renal disease. Chronic renal failure. Paulo is the State of the Federation that contributes with the largest percent of these patients.
Dialysis is a long term procedure and with high cost.
Paulo as in the great part of the country, official and precise data on epidemiologic aspects and health care of the dialysis therapy have been practically nonexistent in the last 19 years. For the best utilization of the limited available economic resources in the health care area and in particular for the treatment of ESRD, it is the utmost importance the knowledge of more precise data to that respect. Such information will be significant to address important subjects, as much in the renal community, as in the area of planning of health care, referring to the aetiology, prevention of ESRD, access to the services, mortality, morbidity, quality control of the delivered dialysis therapy, forecast of staff costs in the area, etc. Paulo on the dialysis treatment of ESRD patients during the year of 1991 in the city of S o Paulo and surroundings. The staff of dialysis centers fill monthly, several forms and sent them to the respective ERSA and also to the Regional Commission of Nephrology of the State.