Effect of donor nephrectomy time during circulatory-dead donor kidney retrieval on transplant graft failure.
Line HeylenJ PirenneU SamuelI TiekenM CoemansM NaesensB SprangersIna JochmansPublished in: The British journal of surgery (2019)
Prolonged donor nephrectomy time impairs graft outcome in kidneys donated after circulatory death. Keeping this short, together with efficient cooling during nephrectomy, might improve outcome.