Article ID | Journal | Published Year | Pages | File Type |
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6248202 | Transplantation Proceedings | 2012 | 5 Pages |
Abstract
Living-donor programs have gradually become an attractive strategy to expand the donor pool for kidney transplantation (KT). Grafts from living-related donors (LRD) display superior function and longer survival than those obtained from cadaveric sources. Recent reports have shown that outcomes from living-unrelated donors (LUD) are not worse than those from LRD. In this study, we evaluated 135 procedures using living donors performed in our center between 1987 and 2010 (LRD: n = 111; LUD: n = 24). Among the LRD, most donors were mothers (n = 61; 54.95%), fathers (n = 25; 22.52%), and sisters (n = 16; 14.41%). The LUD included wives (n = 17; 70.83%) and husbands (n = 7; 29.17%). The mean recipient ages for LRD versus LUD were 26.94 ± 13.51 and 50.04 ± 8.86 years, respectively (P < .0001). The recipient female/male distribution was 33/78 (29.73%/70.27%) for the LRD versus 6/18 (25%/75%) for the LUD group (P = .643). The donor age was 48.79 ± 9 years in LRD and 49.25 ± 8.44 years in LUD (P = .696). The donor female/male distribution was 72/39 (64.86%/35.16%) in LRD and 17/7 (70.83%/29.17%) in LUD (P = .576). The follow up was 123.79 ± 87.87 months (range, 0.91-279.93). Overall patient and graft survivals were 94.1% and 67.6%, respectively. There was no significant difference in patient survival after stratifying for donor type (LRD: 93.9%; LUD: 95.8%; P = .961) or in graft survival after stratifying for donor type (LRD: 63.8%; LUD: 87.8%; P = .124). Entering donor type as an independent variable in a univariate Cox regression, we observed no significance for either recipient (P = .961) or graft survival (P = .142). The results of this study suggest that LUD utilization should be encouraged in KT programs.
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Authors
G. Santori, S. Barocci, I. Fontana, M. Bertocchi, A. Tagliamacco, R. Biticchi, U. Valente, A. Nocera,