The Association of Time to Organ Procurement on Short- and Long-Term Outcomes in Kidney Transplantation.

ABSTRACT:

Background and objectives

Transplant centers in Europe aim to minimize the time from brain death to organ procurement (procurement delay), but evidence to justify this is scarce. In the United States, procurement times are significantly longer. Our objective was to analyze how procurement delay associates with kidney allograft outcomes.

Design, setting, participants, & measurements

Kidney transplantations from brain-dead donors were retrospectively analyzed from the Finnish Kidney Transplant Registry and the Scientific Registry of Transplant Recipients in the United States. Multivariable models were adjusted with donor and recipient characteristics, and the relationship between procurement delay and outcomes was modeled with cubic spline functions.

Results

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SUBMITTER: Eerola V 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC8011019 | biostudies-literature | 2021 Mar

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature