Dual transplantation of marginal kidneys from nonheart beating donors selected using machine perfusion viability criteria

The Journal of Urology
Alex Patricio NavarroDavid Talbot

Abstract

Viability testing can be used to avoid the transplantation of nonheart beating donor organs that are likely to have primary nonfunction. Such testing also identifies a second group of kidneys which, although unsuitable for solitary transplantation, may be considered for dual transplantation. In kidneys in this group solitary transplants would be unlikely to produce a sufficient glomerular filtration rate to support the recipient. However, if used together as a dual transplant, they have the potential to produce sufficient renal function in 1 patient. The group at our unit has performed 23 dual nonheart beating donor renal transplants from 2003 to date. Using 3 and 12-month post-transplantation recipient glomerular filtration rates as primary end points we compared our dual transplant group with our series of 115 single nonheart beating donor transplants from 1998 to 2006. At 3 and 12 months mean glomerular filtration rates in the dual group were 46.2 and 45.5 ml per minute per 1.73 m(2), respectively. These values were not significantly different from the mean glomerular filtration rates of 40.7 and 43.0 ml per minute per 1.73 m(2), respectively, in the single transplant group. We have observed that a subset of nonheart beating...Continue Reading

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Mar 13, 2003·Kidney International·Nicholas R BrookMichael L Nicholson
Jan 11, 2017·Transplantation·María José Pérez-SáezJulio Pascual
Mar 9, 2011·Current Opinion in Organ Transplantation·Ina Jochmans, Jacques Pirenne
Jul 29, 2017·International Scholarly Research Notices·Muhammad Abdul Mabood KhalilRabeea Azmat
May 23, 2009·American Journal of Transplantation : Official Journal of the American Society of Transplantation and the American Society of Transplant Surgeons·A P NavarroD Talbot
Jan 28, 2021·International Journal of Molecular Sciences·Maria Irene BelliniVito D'Andrea
Dec 23, 2021·Clinical Transplantation·Robert J StrattaBerjesh Sharda

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