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Abstract End stage renal disease is a major health problem in Egypt as it affected about 483 cases for each millions of population (Mahmoud et al., 2010).Dialysis; as a treatment for renal failure, induce many problems beside the symptoms of the disease itself. So, quality of life of those patients consider unsatisfied. The preferred treatment for end stage renal disease remain transplantation, therefore, this study was done to evaluate quality of life after renal transplantation. It is a descriptive study included 200 patients had kidney transplantation, they also ; passed dialysis period before transplantation. The tool used in this study is quality of life scale for end stage renal disease. The study found statistical significance difference between dialysis period and post transplantation regarding physical, psychological, and spiritual domain in the contrary with social domain. It recommended that more researches need to be done to assess quality of life after renal transplantation for both recipients and donors, the need for community awareness by importance of donation and finally preventive measures to reduce incidence of end stage renal disease. |