Abstract: 【Abstract】Renal replacement therapy in end stage renal disease patients include dialysis and renal transplantation. Due to the lack of sufficient donor renal organs, patients usually have to undergo a variable time of dialysis before renal transplantation. Whether the pre-transplant dialysis modalities, such as hemodialysis and peritoneal dialysis, the duration of dialysis, and no pre-transplant dialysis, impact on the early and long-term prognosis of renal transplantation remains undetermined. In this review, we will introduce the recent research progress in this issue.

Key words: Renal transplantation, Hemodialysis, Peritoneal dialysis, Prognosis