Acute Kidney Injury in Deceased Organ Donors and Kidney Transplant Outcomes: A National Cohort Study Using a Novel Data Source

*Department of Surgery, University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, PA

†Leonard Davis Institute of Health Economics, University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, PA

‡National Clinician Scholars Program, University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, PA

¶Division of Renal-Electrolyte and Hypertension, Department of Medicine, University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, PA

§Center for Clinical Epidemiology and Biostatistics, University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, PA

∥Division of General Internal Medicine, Department of Medicine, University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, PA

[email protected].

Support: E.S. is supported by NIH grant (T32-DK07006-44) and received an Eisenberg grant through the University of Pennsylvania.

Financial Disclosures: P.P.R. has the following financial disclosures for research unrelated to this manuscript: he holds investigator-initiated and collaborative grants from Merck and AbbVie to the University of Pennsylvania to support research on transplantation of HCV-infected organs into uninfected recipients, followed by antiviral treatment and investigator-initiated grants from CVS Caremark and Merck to the University of Pennsylvania to support research on medication adherence (focus: Statins). V.S.P. is supported by a Satellite Dialysis Clinical Investigator Grant of the National Kidney Foundation for work unrelated to this manuscript.

The United Network for Organ Sharing (UNOS) administers the OPTN under contract with the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services (HHS). This work was supported in part by Health Resources and Services Administration contract 234-2005-37011C. The content is the responsibility of the authors alone and does not necessarily reflect the views or policies of the Department of Health and Human Services, nor does mention of trade names, commercial products, or organizations imply endorsement by the U.S. Government.

Other disclosures: P.L.A.: Associate editor for the American Journal of Transplantation, editorial board or Liver Transplantation as well as Clinical Transplantation. P.P.R.: Associate editor for the American Journal of Kidney Diseases.

The authors report no conflicts of interest.

Supplemental digital content is available for this article. Direct URL citations appear in the printed text and are provided in the HTML and PDF versions of this article on the journal’s Web site (www.annalsofsurgery.com).

留言 (0)

沒有登入
gif