WHEN SHOULD EXPANDED CRITERIA DONOR KIDNEYS BE USED FOR SINGLE VERSUS DUAL KIDNEY TRANSPLANTS?1
| Autor: | Martha Pavlakis, Crystine M. Lee, Edward J. Alfrey, Donald C. Dafoe, John D. Scandling, Amy J. Markezich |
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| Rok vydání: | 1997 |
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Transplantation
medicine.medical_specialty Creatinine Kidney business.industry Incidence (epidemiology) Urology Retrospective cohort study medicine.disease Expanded Criteria Donor Surgery chemistry.chemical_compound medicine.anatomical_structure chemistry medicine business Kidney transplantation Kidney disease |
| Zdroj: | Transplantation. 64:1142-1146 |
| ISSN: | 0041-1337 |
| DOI: | 10.1097/00007890-199710270-00011 |
| Popis: | Background. To increase the utilization of cadaveric donor kidneys, we have recently expanded our acceptable criteria to include aged donors (frequently with a history of hypertension), by selectively using both donor kidneys (dual transplant) into a single recipient. Methods. To define when these expanded criteria donor (ECD) kidneys should be used as a single versus a dual kidney transplant, we retrospectively reviewed 52 recipients of ECD kidneys that had been turned down by all other local centers between 1/1/95 and 11/15/96. Fifteen patients received dual transplants, whereas the remaining 37 received single kidneys. of the dual kidney recipients, 14 of 15 ECD were 24 hr. Results. In the group with D.AdC Cr |
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