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. 2018 Sep 17;19:235. doi: 10.1186/s12882-018-1013-3

Table 3.

Demography and Clinical Characteristics of Kidney Donors after Cardiac Death (DCD)

Characteristics Donated to PKT
(n = 5)
Donated to HD
(n = 79)
Donated to PD
(n = 83)
p-value
Age(years) 42.8 ± 17.0 40.3 ± 13.7 37.7 ± 16.5 0.451
Male, n (%) 5(100.0) 52(65.8) 62(74.7) 0.216
BMI (kg/m2) 21.8(20.4,26.5) 21.5(19.5,23.0) 21.2(19.8,24.0) 0.972
Blood group (A:B:AB:O) 2:2:0:1 13:20:9:37 18:23:11:31 0.649
Hypertension(%) 2(40.0) 36(41.8) 25(34.4) 0.355
ICU stay 2.0(1.5,21.0) 2.0(1.5,4.0) 2.0(1.0,4.5) 0.510
HLA mismatching 0.098
 0–2 3(60.0) 23(29.1) 13(15.7)
 3–4 1(20.0) 8(10.1) 13(15.7)
 5–6 1(20.0) 48(60.8) 57(68.7)
Serum white blood cell (109/L) 12.7 ± 9.0 12.2 ± 5.7 14.6 ± 9.9 0.424
Serum creatinine (umol/L) 64.1(36.5,65.5) 67.5(48.7107.3) 74.0(48.0,95.0) 0.947
Cholesterol (mmol/L) 3.3 ± 1.1 3.2 ± 1.3 3.7 ± 1.6 0.429
Triglyceride (mmol/L) 1.2 ± 0.6 1.4 ± 0.7 1.3 ± 0.8 0.830
eGFR(mL/min/1.73m2) 110.0(98.0,133.0) 129.4(72.1215.2) 109.5(72.8209.0) 0.930
Cause of death,n (%) 0.179
 Cerebrovascular accident 2(40.0) 27(34.6) 28(37.3)
 Trauma 3(60.0) 23(29.5) 26(34.7)
 Cerebral tumor 0(0) 3(3.8) 2(2.7)
 Others 0(0) 3(3.8) 8(10.7)
 Unknown 0(0) 22(28.2) 11(14.7)

P-value, between hemodialysis and peritoneal dialysis group

PKT pre-emptive kidney transplantation, HD hemodialysis, PD peritoneal dialysis, ICU intensive care unit, eGFR estimated glomerular filtration rate