title: Deceased donor renal transplantation at army hospital research and referral: Our experience.
abstract: BACKGROUND
  In India, there are a large number of end-stage renal disease (ESRD) patients waiting for renal transplant. Deceased donor organ transplantation (DDOT) is the possible solution to bridge the disparity between organ supply and demand. The concept of expanded criteria donors (ECDs) was developed to combat the huge discrepancy between demand and organ availability. However, ECD kidneys have a higher propensity for delayed graft function (DGF), and therefore worse long-term survival. We present our experience of deceased donor renal transplantation.
  
  
  OBJECTIVE
  We report single centre experience on DDOT including ECDs vis-à-vis patient/graft survival, graft function in terms of serum creatinine (SCr), rejection episodes, and delayed graft function in 44 DDOT.
  
  
  METHODS
  Between August 1998 and April 2011, 44 renal transplants from 35 deceased donors were performed, of which 37.2% were expanded criteria donors. Results were analyzed in terms of age of donor, terminal SCr, graft ischemia time, graft function, post-transplant complications, and graft and patient survival. All recipients received sequential triple drug immunosuppression and induction with rabbit antithymocyte globulin (rATG). The induction is commenced by giving first dose of rATG intraoperatively (dose 1.5 mg/kg) and subsequent rATG infusions were administered daily for a minimum of 5 and maximum of 7 doses depending on initial graft function.
  
  
  RESULTS
  We have been able to achieve a mean cold ischemia time of 6.25 ± 2.55 h due to the coordinated team efforts. Delayed graft function occurred in 34% patients and 31.8% had prolonged drainage. There were no urinary leaks. Seven (16%) patients had biopsy-proven rejection episodes, all of which were reversed with treatment. Two patients underwent graft nephrectomy. One of these was due to hyperacute rejection and another due to anastomotic hemorrhage. One-year graft survival was 92.4% and the patient survival was 83.8%.
  
  
  CONCLUSIONS
  Deceased donor renal transplants have satisfactory graft function and patient survival despite the high incidence of delayed graft function. Retrieving kidneys from marginal donors can add to the donor pool.
authors: Department of Urology, Army Hospital Research and Referral, New Delhi, India.
authors: Yogesh Kumar
authors: YK
authors: Swami
authors: Dharam Vir
authors: DV
authors: Singh
authors: Sanjay K
authors: SK
authors: Gupta
authors: Aditya A
authors: AA
authors: Pradhan
authors: Yajvender P S
authors: YP
authors: Rana
authors: Sandeep
authors: S
authors: Harkar
authors: M Shafi
authors: MS
authors: Wani
keywords: Cold ischemia time; deceased donor; delayed graft function; end-stage renal disease
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