Procurement Biopsies in the Evaluation of Deceased Donor Kidneys.

ABSTRACT:

Background and objectives

Biopsies taken at deceased donor kidney procurement continue to be cited as a leading reason for discard; however, the reproducibility and prognostic capability of these biopsies are controversial.

Design, setting, participants, & measurements

We compiled a retrospective, single-institution, continuous cohort of deceased donor kidney transplants performed from 2006 to 2009. Procurement biopsy information-percentage of glomerulosclerosis, interstitial fibrosis/tubular atrophy, and vascular disease-was obtained from the national transplant database. Using univariable, multivariable, and time-to-event analyses for death-censored graft survival, we compared procurement frozen section biopsy reports with reperfusion paraffin-embedded biopsies read by tra

SUBMITTER: Carpenter D 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC6302333 | biostudies-literature | 2018 Dec

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature