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SUBMITTER: Reese PP
PROVIDER: S-EPMC4849827 | biostudies-other | 2016 May
REPOSITORIES: biostudies-other
Reese Peter P PP Hall Isaac E IE Weng Francis L FL Schröppel Bernd B Doshi Mona D MD Hasz Rick D RD Thiessen-Philbrook Heather H Ficek Joseph J Rao Veena V Murray Patrick P Lin Haiqun H Parikh Chirag R CR
Journal of the American Society of Nephrology : JASN 20150915 5
Assessment of deceased-donor organ quality is integral to transplant allocation practices, but tools to more precisely measure donor kidney injury and better predict outcomes are needed. In this study, we assessed associations between injury biomarkers in deceased-donor urine and the following outcomes: donor AKI (stage 2 or greater), recipient delayed graft function (defined as dialysis in first week post-transplant), and recipient 6-month eGFR. We measured urinary concentrations of microalbumi ...[more]