Machine perfusion or cold storage in deceased-donor kidney transplantation

New England Journal of Medicine

Volumn 366, Issue 8, 2012, Pages 770-771

  Moers, Cyril ^a   Pirenne, Jacques ^b   Paul, Andreas ^c   Ploeg, Rutger J ^d  

^a UNIVERSITY MEDICAL CENTER GRONINGEN   (Netherlands)

^b UNIVERSITY HOSPITALS LEUVEN   (Belgium)

^c UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL ESSEN   (Germany)

^d UNIVERSITY OF OXFORD   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CREATININE;

CADAVER DONOR; CREATININE BLOOD LEVEL; CRYOPRESERVATION; DELAYED GRAFT FUNCTION; GRAFT FAILURE; GRAFT SURVIVAL; HUMAN; INTERMETHOD COMPARISON; KIDNEY TRANSPLANTATION; LETTER; MACHINE PERFUSION; ORGAN PRESERVATION; PERFUSION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RISK REDUCTION;

EID: 84857424125     PISSN: 00284793     EISSN: 15334406     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1056/NEJMc1111038     Document Type: Letter

References (3)

1. Moers C, Smits JM, Maathuis MH, et al. Machine perfusion or cold storage in deceased-donor kidney transplantation. N Engl J Med 2009;360:7-19.
2. Metzger RA, Delmonico FL, Feng S, Port FK, Wynn JJ, Merion RM. Expanded criteria donors for kidney transplantation. Am J Transplant 2003;3:Suppl 4:114-25. (Pubitemid 36612389)
3. Jochmans I, Moers C, Smits JM, et al. Machine perfusion versus cold storage for the preservation of kidneys donated after cardiac death: a multicenter, randomized, controlled trial. Ann Surg 2010;252:756-64.