TY - JOUR
T1 - Donation after cardiac death
T2 - A 29-year experience
AU - Bellingham, Janet M.
AU - Santhanakrishnan, Chandrase
AU - Neidlinger, Nikole
AU - Wai, Philip
AU - Kim, Jim
AU - Niederhaus, Silke
AU - Leverson, Glen E.
AU - Fernandez, Luis A.
AU - Foley, David P.
AU - Mezrich, Joshua D.
AU - Odorico, Jon S.
AU - Love, Robert B.
AU - De Oliveira, Nilto
AU - Sollinger, Hans W.
AU - D'Alessandro, Anthony M.
PY - 2011/10
Y1 - 2011/10
N2 - Objective: To report the long-term outcomes of 1218 organs transplanted from donation after cardiac death (DCD) donors from January 1980 through December 2008. Methods: One-thousand two-hundred-eighteen organs were transplanted into 1137 recipients from 577 DCD donors. This includes 1038 kidneys (RTX), 87 livers (LTX), 72 pancreas (PTX), and 21 DCD lungs. The outcomes were compared with 3470 RTX, 1157 LTX, 903 PTX, and 409 lung transplants from donors after brain death (DBD). Results: Both patient and graft survival is comparable between DBD and DCD transplant recipients for kidney, pancreas, and lung after 1, 3, and 10 years. Our findings reveal a significant difference for patient and graft survival of DCD livers at each of these time points. In contrast to the overall kidney transplant experience, the most recent 16-year period (n = 396 DCD and 1,937 DBD) revealed no difference in patient and graft survival, rejection rates, or surgical complications but delayed graft function was higher (44.7% vs 22.0%; P <.001). In DCD LTX, biliary complications (51% vs 33.4%; P <.01) and retransplantation for ischemic cholangiopathy (13.9% vs 0.2%; P <.01) were increased. PTX recipients had no difference in surgical complications, rejection, and hemoglobin A1c levels. Surgical complications were equivalent between DCD and DBD lung recipients. Conclusion: This series represents the largest single center experience with more than 1000 DCD transplants and given the critical demand for organs, demonstrates successful kidney, pancreas, liver, and lung allografts from DCD donors.
AB - Objective: To report the long-term outcomes of 1218 organs transplanted from donation after cardiac death (DCD) donors from January 1980 through December 2008. Methods: One-thousand two-hundred-eighteen organs were transplanted into 1137 recipients from 577 DCD donors. This includes 1038 kidneys (RTX), 87 livers (LTX), 72 pancreas (PTX), and 21 DCD lungs. The outcomes were compared with 3470 RTX, 1157 LTX, 903 PTX, and 409 lung transplants from donors after brain death (DBD). Results: Both patient and graft survival is comparable between DBD and DCD transplant recipients for kidney, pancreas, and lung after 1, 3, and 10 years. Our findings reveal a significant difference for patient and graft survival of DCD livers at each of these time points. In contrast to the overall kidney transplant experience, the most recent 16-year period (n = 396 DCD and 1,937 DBD) revealed no difference in patient and graft survival, rejection rates, or surgical complications but delayed graft function was higher (44.7% vs 22.0%; P <.001). In DCD LTX, biliary complications (51% vs 33.4%; P <.01) and retransplantation for ischemic cholangiopathy (13.9% vs 0.2%; P <.01) were increased. PTX recipients had no difference in surgical complications, rejection, and hemoglobin A1c levels. Surgical complications were equivalent between DCD and DBD lung recipients. Conclusion: This series represents the largest single center experience with more than 1000 DCD transplants and given the critical demand for organs, demonstrates successful kidney, pancreas, liver, and lung allografts from DCD donors.
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U2 - 10.1016/j.surg.2011.07.057
DO - 10.1016/j.surg.2011.07.057
M3 - Article
C2 - 22000181
AN - SCOPUS:80054104780
VL - 150
SP - 692
EP - 702
JO - Surgery (United States)
JF - Surgery (United States)
SN - 0039-6060
IS - 4
ER -