Abstract
Non-heart-beating donors who present irreversible cardiac arrest occurring outside the hospital are a valuable source of kidneys for renal transplantation and they could help shorten the list of patients who are waiting for a kidney transplant. However, the significant degree of warm ischemic injury suffered by non-heart-beating kidneys leads to a greater incidence of primary non-function and delayed graft function than those from brainstem dead heart-beating donors. Our purpose was to compare the outcomes of kidney transplants from non-heart-beating donors (Maastricht donors type I and II) and heart-beating cadaveric donors.
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