First Canadian experience with donation after cardiac death simultaneous pancreas and kidney transplants | Zendy

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First Canadian experience with donation after cardiac death simultaneous pancreas and kidney transplants

Author(s) -

Patrick T. Anderson,

Shahid Aquil,

Kelly M. McLean,

Vivian C. McAlister,

Alp Şener,

Patrick Luke

Publication year - 2017

Publication title -

canadian journal of surgery

Language(s) - English

Resource type - Journals

SCImago Journal Rank - 0.609

H-Index - 64

eISSN - 1488-2310

pISSN - 0008-428X

DOI - 10.1503/cjs.011315

Subject(s) - medicine , thymoglobulin , immunosuppression , creatinine , surgery , panel reactive antibody , retrospective cohort study , kidney , urology , interquartile range , kidney transplantation , transplantation

Compared with neurologic determination of death (NDD) donor organs, donation after cardiac death (DCD) donor organs have traditionally been considered of inferior quality owing to warm ischemia experienced during procurement. We present, to our knowledge, the first analysis of simultaneous pancreas and kidney (SPK) transplants using DCD donor organs in Canada.

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