Open AccessUrine Injury Biomarkers Are Not Associated With Kidney Transplant Failure
Author(s) -
Neel Koyawala,
Peter P. Reese,
Isaac E. Hall,
Yaqi Jia,
Heather Thiessen-Philbrook,
Sherry G. Mansour,
Mona D. Doshi,
Enver Akalin,
Jonathan S. Bromberg,
Meera N. Harhay,
Sumit Mohan,
Thangamani Muthukumar,
Bernd Schröppel,
Pooja Singh,
Francis L. Weng,
Chirag R. Parikh
Publication year - 2020
Publication title -
transplantation
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 1.45
H-Index - 204
eISSN - 1534-6080
pISSN - 0041-1337
DOI - 10.1097/tp.0000000000002948
Subject(s) - urine , medicine , acute kidney injury , kidney , kidney transplant , kidney transplantation , intensive care medicine , urology
Kidneys transplanted from deceased donors with serum creatinine-defined acute kidney injury (AKI) have similar allograft survival as non-AKI kidneys but are discarded at a higher rate. Urine injury biomarkers are sensitive markers of structural kidney damage and may more accurately predict graft outcomes.