A simple cardiovascular risk score can predict poor outcome in non-heart-beating donor renal transplantation

A simple cardiovascular risk score used in our centre to plan cardiovascular work-up for renal transplantation can predict outcome in non-heart-beating donor (NHBD) renal transplantation. Patients in the higher-risk group, with a score of >12 of a maximum of 36 are likely to have a longer duration of delayed graft function, poorer glomerular filtration rate at 6 months, and inferior graft and patient survival, together with a relative rate of graft loss within 60 days of 4.514 (P = .019) and within 1 year of 3.511 (P = .036). Although a high cardiovascular risk score should not be regarded as a contraindication to NHBD transplantation, the score can be used to facilitate recipient selection.