Dagmar Kollmann, Shuet Fong Neong, Roizar Rosales, Bettina E Hansen, Gonzalo Sapisochin, Stuart McCluskey, Mamatha Bhat, Mark S Cattral, Les Lilly, Ian D McGilvray, Anand Ghanekar, David R Grant, Markus Selzner, Florence S H Wong, Nazia Selzner
Recipients of donation after circulatory death (DCD) grafts are reportedly at higher risk of developing renal dysfunction after liver transplantation (LT). We compared the development of acute kidney injury (AKI) and chronic kidney disease (CKD) after LT in recipients of DCD versus donation after brain death (DBD) or living donor liver transplantation (LDLT) livers. Adult recipients of DBD, LDLT, and DCD between 2012 and 2016 at Toronto General Hospital were included. AKI was defined as a post-LT increase of serum creatinine (sCr) ≥26...
June 2020: Liver Transplantation