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AMERICAN JOURNAL OF TRANSPLANTATION
Volume 16, Issue 9, Pages 2714-2723Publisher
WILEY
DOI: 10.1111/ajt.13817
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clinical research; practice; health services and outcomes research; kidney transplantation; nephrology; kidney transplantation: living donor; kidney (allograft) function; dysfunction; delayed graft function (DGF); graft survival; infection and infectious agents
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The association between prolonged cold ischemic time (CIT) and graft and patient outcomes in live donor kidney transplant recipients remains unclear. The aims of this study were to examine the association of CIT with delayed graft function and graft loss in live donor kidney transplant recipients and those who participated in the Australian Paired Kidney Exchange program using data from the Australia and New Zealand Dialysis and Transplant (ANZDATA) registry. Of 3717 live donor transplant recipients between 1997 and 2012 who were followed for a median of 6.6 years (25 977 person-years), 224 (25%) experienced CIT >4-8 h. Donor age was an effect modifier between CIT and graft outcomes. In recipients who received kidneys from older donors aged >50 years, every hour of increase in CIT was associated with adjusted odds of 1.28 (95% confidence interval [CI] 1.07-1.53, p = 0.007) for delayed graft function, whereas CIT >4-8 h was associated with adjusted hazards of 1.93 (95% CI 1.21-3.09, p = 0.006) and 1.91 (95% CI 1.05-3.49, p = 0.035) for overall and death-censored graft loss, respectively, compared with CIT of 1-2 h. Attempts to reduce CIT in live donor kidney transplants involving older donor kidneys may lead to improvement of graft outcomes. In older live donor kidney transplantation, the authors find an association between prolonged ischemic time beyond 4 hours and a twofold greater risk of overall and death-censored graft loss compared to ischemic time of 1-2 hours.
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