Abstract
Currently, no international standard for the pre-transplant evaluation of living donor renal function exists. Following a standardized questionnaire on current practice in all Eurotransplant (ET) centers, we compared a new CT-based technique to measure renal cortex volume with our standard of DTPA-clearance combined with MAG3-scintigraphy (DTPA × MAG3) and with creatinine-based methods in 167 consecutive living kidney donors. Most ET centers use creatinine-clearance (64%) to measure total renal function and radioistopic methods (82%) to assess split renal function. Before transplantation, CT-measured total cortex volume (r = 0.67; P < 0.001) and estimated GFR using the Cockcroft-Gault formula [eGFR(CG)] (r = 0.55; P < 0.001) showed the strongest correlation with DTPA-clearance. In contrast, the correlation between DTPA-clearance and creatinine clearance was weak (r = 0.21; P = 0.02). A strong correlation was observed between CT-measured split cortex volume and MAG3-measured split renal function (r = 0.93; P < 0.001). A strong correlation was also found between pre-transplant split renal function assessed by eGFR(CG) together with cortex volume measurement and post-transplant eGFR(CG) of both, the donor (r = 0.83; P < 0.001) and the recipient (r = 0.75; P < 0.001). In conclusion CT-based assessment of renal cortex volume bears the potential to substitute existing methods to assess pre-transplant living donor split renal function.
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