Nefrología : publicación oficial de la Sociedad Española Nefrologia
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Multicenter Study Observational Study
Kidney transplant from controlled donors following circulatory death: Results from the GEODAS-3 multicentre study.
Many European countries have transplant programmes with controlled donors after cardiac death (cDCD). Twenty-two centres are part of GEODAS group. We analysed clinical results from a nephrological perspective. ⋯ CIT is a modifiable factor for improving the incidence of primary non-function in kidney transplant arising from cDCD. cDCD kidney transplant recipients have higher delayed graft function rate, but the same patient and graft survival compared to brain-dead donation in historical references. These results are convincing enough to continue fostering this type of donation.