Transplant international : official journal of the European Society for Organ Transplantation
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The growth in living kidney donation has been accompanied by greater racial diversity. Most information on post-donation health comes from single-center studies of dominantly Caucasian cohorts. Recent linkage of U. ⋯ Thus, based on concerns for higher risks of long-term end-organ damage, it may be reasonable to consider race within the living donor selection process, such as use of more stringent exclusion criteria among non-Caucasian living donors with baseline elevated blood pressure. Recently identified associations of coding variants in the apolipoprotein L1 (APOL1) gene with nondiabetic renal failure in African Americans raise promise of APOL1 genotyping as a novel tool for risk stratifying African American potential donors, but more data are needed to understand implications for post-donation outcomes. To tailor counseling and informed consent, focused attention to long-term medical outcomes among non-Caucasian living donors is needed, and should include assembly of healthy non-donor controls for assessment of attributable risks of donation.
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Surgeries performed during the night are associated with higher complication rates. The aim of this study was to determine the impact of nighttime surgery on the outcome after kidney transplantation. In all, 873 deceased donor kidney transplants were retrospectively analyzed and grouped according to the time of surgery: daytime (8 AM to 8 PM, n = 610) versus nighttime (8 PM to 8 AM, n = 263). ⋯ Nighttime procedures were associated with 22.4% complications compared to 22.1% in daytime procedures (P = 0.92). Most importantly, if transplantations were postponed until the next morning, cold ischemia time (CIT) would have increased from 16.6 h to 24.6 h (P < 0.0001) which would have resulted in decreased long-term survival (P < 0.02). Nighttime kidney transplants are neither associated with a higher surgical complication rate nor worse 5-year outcomes than daytime procedures, thus are justified to keep CIT short.