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Outcome of kidney paired donation transplantation to increase donor pool and to prevent commercial transplantation: a single-center experience from a developing country

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Abstract

Background

Economic constraints in operating an effective maintenance dialysis program leaves renal transplantation as the only viable option for end-stage renal disease patients in India. Kidney paired donation (KPD) is a rapidly growing modality for facilitating living donor (LD) transplantation for patients who are incompatible with their healthy, willing LD.

Materials and methods

The aim of our study was to report a single-center feasibilities and outcomes of KPD transplantation between 2000 and 2012. We performed KPD transplants in 70 recipients to avoid blood group incompatibility (n = 56) or to avoid a positive crossmatch (n = 14).

Results

Over a mean follow-up of 2.72 ± 2.96 years, one-, five- and ten-year patient survival were 94.6, 81, 81 %, and death-censored graft survival was 96.4, 90.2, 90.2 %, respectively. Ten percent of patients were lost, mainly due to infections (n = 4). There was 14.2 % biopsy-proven acute rejection, and 5.7 % interstitial fibrosis with tubular atrophy eventually leading to graft loss.

Conclusion

The incidences of acute rejection, patient/graft survival rates were acceptable in our KPD program and, therefore, we believe it should be encouraged. These findings are valuable for encouraging participation of KPD pairs and transplant centers in national KPD program. It should be promoted in centers with low-deceased donor transplantation. Our study findings are relevant in the context of Indian government amending the Transplantation of Human Organs Act to encourage national KPD program. To our knowledge, it is largest single-center report from India.

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  1. Department of Nephrology and Clinical Transplantation, Institute of Kidney Diseases and Research Center, Dr. HL Trivedi Institute of Transplantation Sciences (IKDRC-ITS), Civil Hospital Campus, Asarwa, Ahmedabad, 380016, Gujarat, India

    Vivek B. Kute, Manoj R. Gumber, Himanshu V. Patel, Pankaj R. Shah, Mohan P. Patel & Hargovind L. Trivedi

  2. Laboratory Medicine, Department of Pathology, Transfusion Services and Immunohematology, IKDRC-ITS, Ahmedabad, India

    Aruna V. Vanikar

  3. Department of Urology and Transplantation, IKDRC-ITS, Ahmedabad, India

    Pranjal R. Modi

  4. Department of Anesthesia and Critical Care, IKDRC-ITS, Ahmedabad, India

    Veena R. Shah

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Kute, V.B., Gumber, M.R., Patel, H.V. et al. Outcome of kidney paired donation transplantation to increase donor pool and to prevent commercial transplantation: a single-center experience from a developing country. Int Urol Nephrol 45, 1171–1178 (2013). https://doi.org/10.1007/s11255-012-0323-9

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