title: Regional program for kidney preservation and transplantation in New England.
abstract: From July 1972 to March 1975, 431 cadaver kidneys were harvested and preserved by continuous pulsatile perfusion with cryoprecipitated human plasma. Forty-eight per cent of the transplanted kidneys were considered to have immediate function, another 48 per cent demonstrated acute tubular necrosis, and 4 per cent were classified as nonfunctioning. There was no difference in the incidence of acute tubular necrosis in relation to the total preservation time. There was a significant difference in the survival of primary cadaver grafts at six months and one year between the kidneys that demonstrated immediate function and those with acute tubular necrosis.
mesh_terms: D002102:Cadaver; D006801:Humans; D016030:Kidney Transplantation; D009511:New England; D009926:Organ Preservation / Q000379:methods; D014015:Tissue Banks; D014019:Tissue Donors; D014021:Tissue Preservation / Q000379:methods; D014184:Transplantation, Homologous