Pretransplant Dialysis and Preemptive Transplant in Living Donor Kidney Recipients.

ABSTRACT:

Background

The optimal timing of dialysis access placement in individuals with stage 5 CKD is challenging to estimate. Preemptive living donor kidney transplant (LDKT) is the gold-standard treatment for ESKD due to superior graft survival and mortality, but dialysis initiation is often required. Among LDKT recipients, we sought to determine which clinical characteristics were associated with preemptive transplant. Among non-preemptive LDKT recipients, we sought to determine what dialysis access was used, and their duration of use before receipt of living donor transplant.

Methods

We retrospectively extracted data on 569 LDKT recipients, >18 years old, who were transplanted between January 2014 and July 2019 at UCSF, including dialysis access type (arteriovenous fistula [AVF]

SUBMITTER: Lai M 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC9255866 | biostudies-literature | 2022 Jun

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature