{"id":315,"date":"2014-08-25T14:38:09","date_gmt":"2014-08-25T14:38:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.transplantevidence.com\/blog\/?p=315"},"modified":"2014-08-25T14:38:09","modified_gmt":"2014-08-25T14:38:09","slug":"wtc-2014-neonatal-donor-kidneys","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.transplantevidence.com\/news\/2014\/08\/25\/wtc-2014-neonatal-donor-kidneys\/","title":{"rendered":"WTC 2014: Neonatal donor kidneys"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Dr Richard Perez presented a fascinating abstract on the use of of neonatal donor kidneys. The mean donor age was 20 days and 70% of kidneys came from DCD donors. Twenty recipients with a mean weight of 54 kg received infant kidneys. There has been no deaths but 4 early graft failures. The surgical complications rate was 55% and the rate of DGF was 40%. These promising results show that neonatal donor kidneys although challenging should be considered as a potential source of kidneys available for transplantation.<\/p>\n<p>(Perez R, Santhanakrishnan C, Demattos A, McVicar J, Troppmann C. The neonatal intensive care unit (NICU) as a source of deceased donor kidneys for transplantation: initial experience with 20 cases)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Dr Richard Perez presented a fascinating abstract on the use of of neonatal donor kidneys. The mean donor age was 20 days and 70% of kidneys came from DCD donors. Twenty recipients with a mean weight of 54 kg received infant kidneys. There has been no deaths but 4 early graft failures. The surgical complications [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[164],"tags":[259,278,314],"class_list":["post-315","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-conferences","tag-paediatric-transplantation","tag-renal-transplantation","tag-wtc"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.transplantevidence.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/315","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.transplantevidence.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.transplantevidence.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.transplantevidence.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.transplantevidence.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=315"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.transplantevidence.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/315\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.transplantevidence.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=315"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.transplantevidence.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=315"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.transplantevidence.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=315"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}