Impact of Korea Network for Organ Sharing Expanded Donor Criteria on Delayed Graft Fuction in Kidney Transplantation: A single-center experience

The shortage of donor organs has been a major challenge in transplantation. In an effort to reduce the donor shortage, kidney transplantation (KT) using expanded criteria donors (ECD) was encouraged. In Korea, transplantation centers used the Korea Network for Organ Sharing (KONOS) ECD criteria, which is different from the United Network for Organ Sharing (UNOS) criteria. The aim of this study is to evaluate the predictive power of KONOS criteria on delayed graft function (DGF) in comparison to UNOS criteria.

Source: Transplantation Proceedings - April 27, 2018 Category: Transplant Surgery Authors: Seung Hwan Song, Seung Hyun Lim, Juhan Lee, Jae Geun Lee, Kyu Ha Huh, Soon Il Kim, Yu Seun Kim, Myoung Soo Kim Source Type: research