Donor-Recipient BSA Matching Is Prognostically Significant in Solitary and En Bloc Kidney Transplantation From Pediatric Circulatory Death Donors

Overview

Journal Transplant Direct

Publisher Wolters Kluwer

Specialty General Surgery

Date 2021 Jul 22

PMID 34291155

Authors

Christopher J Little

Andre A S Dick

James D Perkins

Jorge D Reyes

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Abstract

Background: As the rate of early postoperative complications decline after transplant with pediatric donation after circulatory death (DCD) kidneys, attention has shifted to the long-term consequences of donor-recipient (D-R) size disparity given the pernicious systemic effects of inadequate functional nephron mass.

Methods: We conducted a retrospective cohort study using Organ Procurement and Transplantation Network data for all adult (aged ≥18 y) recipients of pediatric (aged 0-17 y) DCD kidneys in the United States from January 1, 2004 to March 10, 2020.

Results: DCD pediatric allografts transplanted between D-R pairs with a body surface area (BSA) ratio of 0.10-0.70 carried an increased risk of all-cause graft failure (relative risk [RR], 1.36; 95% confidence interval [CI], 1.10-1.69) and patient death (RR, 1.32; 95% CI, 1.01-1.73) when compared with pairings with a ratio of >0.91. Conversely, similar graft and patient survivals were demonstrated among the >0.70-0.91 and >0.91 cohorts. Furthermore, we found no difference in death-censored graft survival between all groups. Survival analysis revealed improved 10-y patient survival in recipients of en bloc allografts ( = 0.02) compared with recipients of single kidneys with D-R BSA ratios of 0.10-0.70. A similar survival advantage was demonstrated in recipients of solitary allografts with D-R BSA ratios >0.70 compared with the 0.10-0.70 cohort ( = 0.02).

Conclusions: Inferior patient survival is likely associated with systemic sequelae of insufficient renal functional capacity in size-disparate DCD kidney recipients, which can be overcome by appropriate BSA matching or en bloc transplantation. We therefore suggest that in DCD kidney transplantation, D-R BSA ratios of 0.10-0.70 serve as criteria for en bloc allocation or alternative recipient selection to optimize the D-R BSA ratio to >0.70.

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