Current status of kidney transplant outcomes: dying to survive

JH Wang, MA Skeans, AK Israni - Advances in chronic kidney disease, 2016 - Elsevier
Kidney transplantation is associated with improved survival compared with maintenance
dialysis. In the United States, post-transplant outcomes have steadily improved over the last …

[HTML][HTML] Renal normothermic machine perfusion: the road toward clinical implementation of a promising pretransplant organ assessment tool

TL Hamelink, B Ogurlu, J De Beule, VA Lantinga… - …, 2022 - journals.lww.com
The increased utilization of high-risk renal grafts for transplantation requires optimization of
pretransplant organ assessment strategies. Current decision-making methods to accept an …

Trial of transplantation of HCV-infected kidneys into uninfected recipients

DS Goldberg, PL Abt, EA Blumberg… - … England Journal of …, 2017 - Mass Medical Soc
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Factors leading to the discard of deceased donor kidneys in the United States

S Mohan, MC Chiles, RE Patzer, SO Pastan… - Kidney international, 2018 - Elsevier
The proportion of deceased donor kidneys procured for transplant but subsequently
discarded has been growing steadily in the United States, but factors contributing to the …

Disparities in acceptance of deceased donor kidneys between the United States and France and estimated effects of increased US acceptance

O Aubert, PP Reese, B Audry, Y Bouatou… - JAMA internal …, 2019 - jamanetwork.com
Importance Approximately 3500 donated kidneys are discarded in the United States each
year, drawing concern from Medicare and advocacy groups. Objective To estimate the …

Diagnosing the decades-long rise in the deceased donor kidney discard rate in the United States

DE Stewart, VC Garcia, JD Rosendale… - …, 2017 - journals.lww.com
Background The proportion of deceased donor kidneys recovered for transplant but
discarded increased steadily in the United States over 2 decades, from 5.1% in 1988 to …

Major variation across local transplant centers in probability of kidney transplant for wait-listed patients

KL King, SA Husain, JD Schold, RE Patzer… - Journal of the …, 2020 - journals.lww.com
Background Geographic disparities in access to deceased donor kidney transplantation
persist in the United States under the Kidney Allocation System (KAS) introduced in 2014 …

Winter is coming: the future of cryopreservation

S Bojic, A Murray, BL Bentley, R Spindler, P Pawlik… - BMC biology, 2021 - Springer
The preservative effects of low temperature on biological materials have been long
recognised, and cryopreservation is now widely used in biomedicine, including in organ …

Assessment of the utility of kidney histology as a basis for discarding organs in the United States: a comparison of international transplant practices and outcomes

PP Reese, O Aubert, M Naesens, E Huang… - Journal of the …, 2021 - journals.lww.com
Background Many kidneys donated for transplant in the United States are discarded
because of abnormal histology. Whether histology adds incremental value beyond usual …

Report of National Kidney Foundation consensus conference to decrease kidney discards

M Cooper, R Formica, J Friedewald… - Clinical …, 2019 - Wiley Online Library
The organ shortage is one of the major challenges in the field of organ transplantation, yet
the percentage of kidneys procured and discarded prior to transplantation has continued to …