Shipping Living Donor Kidneys and Transplant Recipient Outcomes

What is it about?

The study set out to find a causation between an increased cold ischemia time and a delayed graft failure; this was done by using a control group with a CIT of one hour and an experimental group of shipped kidneys with an approximate CIT of 10 hours. The study did not find a correlation between increased CIT and reduced graft or patient survival.

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Why is it important?

Shipped kidneys could potentially be a valuable source of health kidneys for transplant; however, research has to be conducted to ensure that the longer than average cold ischemia time does not contribute to any health complications for the patient in the future.