TY  - JOUR
A1  - Schamberger, Beate
A1  - Lohmann, Dario
A1  - Sollinger, Daniel
A1  - Stein, Raimund
A1  - Lutz, Jens
T1  - Association of kidney donor risk index with the outcome after kidney transplantation in the eurotransplant senior program
T2  - Annals of transplantation
N2  - Background: We evaluated the Kidney Donor Risk Index (KDRI) scoring system for kidney transplantation in the Eurotransplant Senior Program (ESP) that allocates kidneys from older donors to older recipients (≥65 years).
Material and methods: We retrospectively analyzed data of 37 kidney transplant recipients and 36 kidney donors who participated in kidney transplantation program according to the ESP at our center from January 2004 until December 2013.
Results: Mean recipient and donor age was 67.9±2.6 and 70.5±4.0 years respectively. The mean KDRI score was 1.7±0.27. Uncensored graft survival after 1 year and 5 years was 64.2% and 53.7% respectively. Subgroup analysis showed that in kidney transplantation with KDRI >1.83, graft survival was significantly reduced compared to lower KDRI subgroups. KDRI was significantly correlated with serum creatinine level at discharge (r=0.4).
Conclusions: ESP kidneys represent a group of high-risk grafts with high KDRI scores. Higher KDRI scores in ESP kidneys was associated with reduced postoperative short-term and long-term graft outcomes. KDRI might be useful in decision-making for selecting donors for ESP kidney transplantation.
KW  - Donor Selection
KW  - Kidney Transplantation
KW  - Organs at Risk
KW  - Patient Outcome Assessment
Y1  - 2018
UR  - http://publikationen.ub.uni-frankfurt.de/frontdoor/index/index/docId/48477
UR  - https://nbn-resolving.org/urn:nbn:de:hebis:30:3-484774
SN  - 1425-9524
SN  - 2329-0358
N1  - This paper has been published under Creative Common Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivatives 4.0 International (CC BY-NC-ND 4.0) allowing to download articles and share them with others as long as they credit the authors and the publisher, but without permission to change them in any way or use them commercially.
VL  - 23
SP  - 775
EP  - 781
PB  - Polish Transplantation Society with the co-operation of the Czech Transplantation Society and the Hungarian Transplantation Society
CY  - Warsaw
ER  -