Research Article
Cold Pulsatile Machine Perfusion versus Static Cold Storage in Kidney Transplantation: A Single Centre Experience
Table 1
Baseline recipients and donors characteristics. No significant difference between the two groups with ANOVA.
| | | Preservation Modality | | Cold Storage | Hypothermic Machine Perfusion | | Mean ± St. Dev | Total | Mean ± St. Dev. | Total |
| | Recipient Age (years) | 57 ± 10 | | 55 ± 11 | |
| | Cause of kidney failure | Adult Polycystic Kidney Disease | | 3 | | 1 | | Diabetes Mellitus | | 9 | | 11 | | Glomerulosclerosis | | 3 | | 4 | | Hereditary Nephritis | | 1 | | 1 | | HIV Nephropathy | | 1 | | 2 | | Hypertension | | 3 | | 4 | | IgA Nephropathy | | 1 | | 3 | | Ischaemic Nephropathy | | 1 | | 0 | | Lithium toxicity | | 1 | | 1 | | Membranous Nephropathy | | 1 | | 1 | | Myeloma derived Nephritis | | 1 | | 0 | | Obstructive nephropathy after Rhabdomyolysis | | 1 | | 0 | | Systemic Lupus Erythematosus nephritis | | 1 | | 0 | | Tubulo-Interstitial Nephritis | | 1 | | 0 | | Unknown | | 5 | | 5 |
| | Donor after Circulatory Death | N | | 21 | | 21 | | Y | | 12 | | 12 |
| | HLA Mismatch | 0 | | 1 | | 1 | | 1 | | 1 | | 2 | | 2 | | 8 | | 6 | | 3 | | 12 | | 12 | | 4 | | 11 | | 3 | | 5 | | 0 | | 2 |
| | Donor age (years) | 58 ± 14 | | 58 ± 14 | |
| | Cold Ischaemic Time (hours) | 15.1 ± 5.3 | | 15.0 ± 5.6 | |
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HLA= human leukocyte antigen, N= no, and Y= yes.
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