Raphael Schild, Karla Carvajal Abreu, Anja Büscher, Nele Kanzelmeyer, Susanne Lezius, Kai Krupka, Marcus Weitz, Agnieszka Prytula, Nikoleta Printza, László Berta, Seha Kamil Saygılı, Anne-Laure Sellier-Leclerc, Giuseppina Spartà, Stephen D Marks, Markus J Kemper, Sabine König, Rezan Topaloglu, Dominik Müller, Günter Klaus, Stefanie Weber, Jun Oh, Uta Herden, Andrea Carraro, Luca Dello Strologo, Gema Ariceta, Peter Hoyer, Burkhard Tönshoff, Lars Pape
BACKGROUND: Kidney transplantation (KTx) from small donors is associated with inferior graft survival in registry studies, whereas single-center studies show favorable results. METHODS: We compared 175 pediatric KTx from small donors ≤20 kg (SDKTx) with 170 age-matched recipients from adult donors (ADKTx) from 20 centers within the Cooperative European Paediatric Renal Transplant Initiative registry. Graft survival and estimated glomerular filtration rate (eGFR) were analyzed by Cox regression and mixed models...
April 30, 2024: Transplantation