Shipping living donor kidneys and transplant recipient outcomes. Academic Article uri icon

Overview

abstract

  • Kidney paired donation (KPD) is an important tool to facilitate living donor kidney transplantation (LDKT). Concerns remain over prolonged cold ischemia times (CIT) associated with shipping kidneys long distances through KPD. We examined the association between CIT and delayed graft function (DGF), allograft survival, and patient survival for 1267 shipped and 205 nonshipped/internal KPD LDKTs facilitated by the National Kidney Registry in the United States from 2008 to 2015, compared to 4800 unrelated, nonshipped, non-KPD LDKTs. Shipped KPD recipients had a median CIT of 9.3 hours (range = 0.25-23.9 hours), compared to 1.0 hour for internal KPD transplants and 0.93 hours for non-KPD LDKTs. Each hour of CIT was associated with a 5% increased odds of DGF (adjusted odds ratio: 1.05, 95% confidence interval [CI], 1.02-1.09, P < .01). However, there was not a significant association between CIT and all-cause graft failure (adjusted hazard ratio [aHR]: 1.01, 95% CI: 0.98-1.04, P = .4), death-censored graft failure ( [aHR]: 1.02, 95% CI, 0.98-1.06, P = .4), or mortality (aHR 1.00, 95% CI, 0.96-1.04, P > .9). This study of KPD-facilitated LDKTs found no evidence that long CIT is a concern for reduced graft or patient survival. Studies with longer follow-up are needed to refine our understanding of the safety of shipping donor kidneys through KPD.

publication date

  • December 18, 2017

Research

keywords

  • Cold Ischemia
  • Delayed Graft Function
  • Graft Rejection
  • Kidney Failure, Chronic
  • Kidney Transplantation
  • Living Donors
  • Tissue and Organ Harvesting
  • Travel

Identity

PubMed Central ID

  • PMC6354257

Scopus Document Identifier

  • 85038107207

Digital Object Identifier (DOI)

  • 10.1111/ajt.14597

PubMed ID

  • 29165871

Additional Document Info

volume

  • 18

issue

  • 3