Diogo Nunes-Carneiro, Mariana Madanelo, Filipa Silva, Nicole Pestana, Catarina Ribeiro, Diogo Gil-Sousa, La Salete Martins, Manuela Almeida, Leonídio Dias, Jorge Malheiro, Vítor Cavadas, Antonio Castro-Henriques, Avelino Fraga, Miguel Silva-Ramos
The donors' estimated glomerular filtration rate (eGFR) after living nephrectomy has been a concern, particularly in donors with smaller kindeys. Therefore, we developed this retrospective observational study in 195 donors to determine the ability remaining kidney volume indexed to weight (RKV/W) to predict eGFR at 1 year through multivariate linear regression and to explore this relationship between annual eGFR change from 1 to 4 years postdonation evaluated by a linear mixed model. Comparing RKV/W tertiles (T1, T2, T3), RKV/W was a good predictor of 1-year eGFR which was significantly better in T3 donors...
October 2020: Transplant International