Excellent graft and patient survival after renal transplantation from donors after brain death with acute kidney injury: a case-control study.

Background: Whether organs from donors after brain death (DBD) with acute kidney injury (AKI) should be accepted for transplantation is still a matter of debate.

Methods: This was a retrospective, center-based, matched cohort study of 33 renal transplant patients who received a renal allograft from a DBD with AKI. Sixty-five kidney transplants without donor AKI transplanted directly before and after the index transplantation served as controls.