Assessment of Non-Heart-Beating Donor (NHBD) Kidneys for Viability on Machine Perfusion

Abstract

Machine perfusion and assessment of NHBD kidneys has been successfully introduced to the Newcastle NHBD programme. This approach, using renal transplants from largely category II donors produced a success rate of 88.4% which was significantly better than the phase II period (45.5%) of the program (p=0.023, Fisher 2 tail test).