National Trends in Utilization and 1-Year Outcomes with Transplantation of HCV-Viremic Kidneys
Vishnu S. Potluri, David S. Goldberg, Sumit Mohan, Roy D. Bloom, Deirdre Sawinski, Peter L. Abt, Emily A. Blumberg, Chirag R. Parikh, James Sharpe, K. Rajender Reddy, Miklos Z. Molnar, Meghan Sise, Peter P. Reese
Abstract [from journal]
Background: Recent pilot trials have demonstrated the safety of transplanting HCV-viremic kidneys into HCV-seronegative recipients. However, it remains unclear if allograft function is impacted by donor HCV-viremia or recipient HCV-serostatus.
Methods: We used national United States registry data to examine trends in HCV-viremic kidney use between 4/1/2015 and 3/31/2019. We applied advanced matching methods to compare eGFR for similar kidneys transplanted into highly similar recipients of kidney transplants.
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