Improved Immediate Renal Allograft Function After Initial Simple Cold Storage
Immediate renal allograft function has been identified as being an important variable in ultimate graft survival.
Summary
Immediate renal allograft function has been identified as being an important variable in ultimate graft survival.1 Simple cold storage, particularly if preserved for longer than 24 hours, can chave a high incidence of early dysfunction (ED) when cylosporine is used as immediate post transplant immunotherapy.2 Because of the importance of immediate function (IF) and our prejudice toward pulsatile perfusion (PP), we began to place all imported kidnesy previously preserved by simple cold storage onto the PP machine for preservation before transplantation at our center. The following is a description of the outcomes of this trial.