title: Results of kidney transplantation from donors after cardiac death.
abstract: Confronting the organ donor shortage, many transplant centers around the world increasingly use donors after cardiac death (DCD). Over the past 20 years, follow-up studies in kidney recipients comparing DCD and donors after brain death (DBD) have shown comparable long-term graft function and survival. As a consequence, DCD programs should be continued and expanded, for these donors constitute a potential solution to the imbalance between the numbers of end-stage kidney disease patients on waiting lists versus available kidney grafts. DCD kidneys do not necessarily signify suboptimal grafts; they may merit to be allocated the same as DBD grafts.
authors.affiliation: Department of Abdominal Surgery and Transplantation, University Hospital of Liège, University of Liège, Belgium.
authors.forename: H
authors.initials: H
authors.lastname: Ledinh
authors.forename: C
authors.initials: C
authors.lastname: Bonvoisin
authors.forename: L
authors.initials: L
authors.lastname: Weekers
authors.forename: A
authors.initials: A
authors.lastname: de Roover
authors.forename: P
authors.initials: P
authors.lastname: Honoré
authors.forename: J P
authors.initials: JP
authors.lastname: Squifflet
authors.forename: M
authors.initials: M
authors.lastname: Meurisse
authors.forename: O
authors.initials: O
authors.lastname: Detry
mesh_terms: D001926:Brain Death; D002423:Cause of Death; D003643:Death; D006085:Graft Survival; D006801:Humans; D007676:Kidney Failure, Chronic / Q000453:epidemiology / Q000601:surgery; D016030:Kidney Transplantation / Q000502:physiology* / Q000706:statistics & numerical data; D040841:Resource Allocation / Q000379:methods; D014019:Tissue Donors; D016896:Treatment Outcome; D014850:Waiting Lists