reports recommend limiting donor warm ischemia time (DWIT) in DCD donation, although an
independent effect on graft outcome has not been demonstrated. We investigated death-
censored graft survival in 18 065 recipients of deceased-donor kidney transplants in the
Eurotransplant region: 1059 DCD and 17 006 brain-dead donor (DBD) kidney recipients.
DWIT was defined as time from circulatory arrest until cold flush. DCD donation was an …