Fabian Echterdiek1, Constantin Tilgener2, Jürgen Dippon3, Daniel Kitterer4, Justus Scheder-Bieschin5, Gregor Paul6,7, Matthias Ott5, Ulrich Humke2, Vedat Schwenger4, Joerg Latus4. 1. Department of Nephrology, Klinikum Stuttgart - Katharinenhospital, Kriegsbergstrasse 60, 70174, Stuttgart, Germany. f.echterdiek@klinikum-stuttgart.de. 2. Department of Urology and Transplant Surgery, Klinikum Stuttgart - Katharinenhospital, Stuttgart, Germany. 3. Institute for Stochastics and Applications, University of Stuttgart, Stuttgart, Germany. 4. Department of Nephrology, Klinikum Stuttgart - Katharinenhospital, Kriegsbergstrasse 60, 70174, Stuttgart, Germany. 5. Department of Interdisciplinary Emergency and Intensive Care Medicine, Klinikum Stuttgart - Katharinenhospital, Stuttgart, Germany. 6. Department of Gastroenterology, Hepatology, Pneumology and Infectious Diseases, Klinikum Stuttgart - Katharinenhospital, Stuttgart, Germany. 7. Department I of Internal Medicine, Division of Infectious Diseases, University of Cologne, Cologne, Germany.
Abstract
PURPOSE: Careful donor selection is important for kidney transplantations (KT) from suboptimal donors aged ≥65 years. Several tools such as histopathological assessment of preimplant biopsies have been shown to predict allograft survival and can be applied for selection. Whether the explanting surgeon's appraisal is associated with outcomes of KTs from suboptimal donors is unknown. METHODS: We compared outcomes of KTs from ≥65-year-old deceased donors performed at our centre between 1999 and 2018 for which grading of macroscopic 'donor arteriosclerosis' (n=104) and 'organ quality' (n=208) as judged by the explanting surgeon and documented on the Eurotransplant kidney organ report was available. RESULTS: No association was observed between degree of macroscopic donor arteriosclerosis and death-censored graft survival in univariable or multivariable regression analyses. Compared to KTs from donors with no/mild arteriosclerosis, KTs from donors with moderate/severe arteriosclerosis were associated with a significantly impaired allograft function 3 months, 1 year and 3 years after transplantation (e.g. at 3 years: 176.8 µmol/l vs 137.0 µmol/l, P=0.003). Following multivariable regression analysis, these differences remained significant at 3 months and 3 years after KT. No association was observed between degree of macroscopic arteriosclerosis and mortality or primary non-function as well as no consistent association with delayed graft function and histological arteriosclerosis. Assessment of 'organ quality' was not associated with outcomes. CONCLUSION: Our data suggest that the explanting surgeon's assessment of donor arteriosclerosis is associated with allograft function. Larger studies and better standardization of kidney inspection after explantation are required to further explore the impact of surgeon's appraisal in KT.
PURPOSE: Careful donor selection is important for kidney transplantations (KT) from suboptimal donors aged ≥65 years. Several tools such as histopathological assessment of preimplant biopsies have been shown to predict allograft survival and can be applied for selection. Whether the explanting surgeon's appraisal is associated with outcomes of KTs from suboptimal donors is unknown. METHODS: We compared outcomes of KTs from ≥65-year-old deceased donors performed at our centre between 1999 and 2018 for which grading of macroscopic 'donor arteriosclerosis' (n=104) and 'organ quality' (n=208) as judged by the explanting surgeon and documented on the Eurotransplant kidney organ report was available. RESULTS: No association was observed between degree of macroscopic donor arteriosclerosis and death-censored graft survival in univariable or multivariable regression analyses. Compared to KTs from donors with no/mild arteriosclerosis, KTs from donors with moderate/severe arteriosclerosis were associated with a significantly impaired allograft function 3 months, 1 year and 3 years after transplantation (e.g. at 3 years: 176.8 µmol/l vs 137.0 µmol/l, P=0.003). Following multivariable regression analysis, these differences remained significant at 3 months and 3 years after KT. No association was observed between degree of macroscopic arteriosclerosis and mortality or primary non-function as well as no consistent association with delayed graft function and histological arteriosclerosis. Assessment of 'organ quality' was not associated with outcomes. CONCLUSION: Our data suggest that the explanting surgeon's assessment of donor arteriosclerosis is associated with allograft function. Larger studies and better standardization of kidney inspection after explantation are required to further explore the impact of surgeon's appraisal in KT.
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