[Graft viability of patients with renal transplantation from non heart beating donors]

Renal transplantation (RT) is currently the treatment of choice in end-stage renal disease. The Gregorio Marañón hospital performed 65 RT, 97.01 pmp, this year.

To study the characteristics which RT patients from non-heart beating donors have in the immediate post-transplantation renogram. To know the evolution of the renal function, by renogram.

Ten patients with NHBD graft out of 65 patients with RT were studied in the year 2003.

The study is made up of 10 patients with RT from NHBD, with an average timing of warm ischemia of 35 min and average timing of cool ischemia 21 h. In the post-transplantation renal function study, 9 of then showed hemodilution and one an acute tubular necrosis (ATN) pattern. In most of the cases, the study was performed the day after the RT except for one that was performed on the 4th day (1.7 +/- 1 days). Renal perfusion was conserved in every case. The renal graft maintained this type of record until post-RT day 7 (6.67 +/- 0.57 days) and evolved towards ATN after day 10 (11.65 +/- 1.5 days) and normal range on day 55 +/- 51.1 post-transplantation. All patients supported the graft, with acceptable renal function, except one of then who was treated with transplantectomy due to a renal venous thrombosis.

The renal function study showed "hemodilution" in the first post-transplantation in 90 % of the RT from NHBD. Evolution went from ATN to normality. The NHBD are adequate for transplantation, significantly shortening the waiting time for RN.