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Table 2 Clinical results in the four groups

From: Use of marginal organs in kidney transplantation for marginal recipients: too close to the margins of safety?

 

Group 1:

Donor and

recipient

non-marginal

Group 2:

Donor non-

marginal,

recipient

marginal

Group 3:

Donor

marginal,

recipient

non-marginal

Group 4:

Donor and

recipient

marginal

P -value

No. of patients

138

41

69

84

-

Duration of surgery (minutes)

159 ± 63

164 ± 63

153 ± 41

173 ± 71

0.358

Immunosuppression

     

Mycophenolate mofetil (Cell Cept)

101 (73%)

24 (59%)

44 (64%)

53 (63%)

0.203

Tacrolimus

86 (62%)

22 (54%)

37 (54%)

49 (58%)

0.593

Cyclosporin A

44 (32%)

18 (44%)

25 (36%)

30 (36%)

0.559

Sirolimus

5 (4%)

1 (2%)

11 (16%)

4 (5%)

0.003

Intensive care stay donor (days)

6.2 ± 5.7

6.9 ± 6.6

6.1 ± 6.0

3.5 ± 3.2

0.001§

Hospital stay recipient (days)

18.0 ± 14.0

18.9 ± 14.2

15.7 ± 11.6

17.7 ± 19.5

0.699

Any complication *

48 (36%)

20 (49%)

36 (52%)

36 (43%)

0.151

Rejection

38 (28%)

2 (5%)

27 (39%)

26 (31%)

0.001

Primary non-function requiring dialysis

50 (38%)

11 (27%)

20 (29%)

32 (39%)

0.355

Loss of graft

8 (6%)

2 (5%)

7 (10%)

8 (10%)

0.539

Death

3 (2%)

2 (5%)

1 (1%)

6 (7%)

0.176

  1. * except urinary tract infection; § additional nonparametric testing yielded a P = 0.001 by Kruskal-Wallis test