Bone Abstracts

The high prevalence of renal osteodystrophy (ROD) in pediatric renal transplant recipients has been linked to the duration on dialysis pre transplant, exposure to steroids, nutritional deficiencies, limitations in physical activity and ethnicity. The incomplete resolution of ROD in transplant recipients has been found to be associated persistent abnormalities in mineral metabolism associated with allograft dysfunction in the post transplant period.We hyp...