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. Author manuscript; available in PMC: 2018 Jan 18.
Published in final edited form as: Am J Transplant. 2018 Jan;18(Suppl 1):18–113. doi: 10.1111/ajt.14557

Table KI 21. Transplant characteristics of pediatric kidney transplant recipients, 2014–2016.

Kidney transplant recipients, including retransplants.

Characteristic Deceased Living All
N Percent N Percent N Percent
Wait time
  < 1 year 8 0.6% 79 10.7% 87 4.0%
  < 3 years 991 69.3% 549 74.5% 1540 71.1%
  < 5 years 353 24.7% 99 13.4% 452 20.9%
  ≥ 5 years 57 4.0% 8 1.1% 65 3.0%
  Unknown 20 1.4% 2 0.3% 22 1.0%
KDPI
  ≤ 20% 947 66.3%
  21–34% 334 23.4%
  35–85% 145 10.1%
  > 85% 3 0.2%
DCD status
  DBD 1376 96.3%
  DCD 53 3.7%
DGF
  None 1310 91.7% 710 96.3% 2020 93.3%
  Yes 119 8.3% 27 3.7% 146 6.7%
Tx type
  Kidney only 1378 96.4% 737 100.0% 2115 97.6%
  Kidney-liver 43 3.0% 0 0.0% 43 2.0%
  Other 8 0.6% 0 0.0% 8 0.4%
Transplant history
  First 1302 91.1% 681 92.4% 1983 91.6%
  Retransplant 127 8.9% 56 7.6% 183 8.4%
All recipients 1429 100.0% 737 100.0% 2166 100.0%

DBD, donation after brain death; DCD, donation after circulatory death; DGF, delayed graft function; KDPI, kidney donor profile index. DCD status and KDPI scores apply to deceased donor transplants only.