Dialysis within 24 hours of transplant does not improve graft function.

Objectives: Grafts from extended criteria donors, donors after cardiac death, and elderly donors have an increased risk of delayed graft function, lower graft survival, longer hospital stay, higher costs, and increased medical sequelae. A modifiable risk factor for delayed graft function may be the performance of dialysis on the same day as renal transplant. We reviewed our institutional experience to determine whether dialysis performed within 24 hours of engraftment increased the incidence or length of delayed graft function.

Fate of abstracts presented at the 2009 American Transplant Congress.

Introduction: Oral and poster presentations at major meetings serve to rapidly present and share study results with the scientific community. On the other hand, full-text publication of abstracts in peer-reviewed journals provides dissemination of knowledge. The purpose of this study was to evaluate the publication rate of abstracts presented at the 2009 American Transplant Congress (ATC), to assess the factors influencing publication and determine the impact factor of these journals.

Elimination of warm ischemia using the Ice Bag Technique does not decrease delayed graft function.

Background: Warm ischemic time (WIT) in kidney transplantation has significant effects on graft survival, function, and postoperative morbidity. We utilized the Ice Bag Technique (IBT) to determine if eliminating WIT would decrease the incidence and length of delayed graft function (DGF) in our cohort.

Methods: We conducted a prospective study of 150 kidney transplants.

No benefit when placing drains after kidney transplant: a complex statistical analysis.

Objectives: This paper sought to determine if there were an association between drain placement and the incidence of wound complications.

Materials And Methods: A single-center institutional review board-approved retrospective study between 2001 to 2008, comparing 680 kidney transplant patients who either had a drain placed or were left undrained. Linear regression modeling was used to adjust the risk factors between the groups.