ISRCTN35082773

Trial name or title	A multi‐centre, randomised, controlled study of pre‐transplant machine perfusion of heart‐beating donor kidneys prior to renal transplantation
Methods	Multicentre RCT
Participants	200 patients (aged 18 years and over, either gender) undergoing transplantation of a kidney from a heart‐beating cadaver donor
Interventions	MP of the kidney before transplantation versus SCS
Outcomes	To determine whether a brief period of MP reduces the incidence of DGF following kidney transplantation Incidence of DGF at 7 days 1. Patient survival 2. Graft survival 3. Graft function ‐ eGFR 4. Acute rejection incidence 5. Acute rejection severity 6. Incidence of steroid resistant rejection, defined as the need for ATG therapy
Starting date	Overall study start date: 28/06/2006
Contact information	Mr Christopher Watson Department of Surgery Box 202 Addenbrooke's Hospital Cambridge CB2 2QQ United Kingdom
Notes	The following is listed as an editorial note in the ISRCTN registry (http://www.isrctn.com/ISRCTN35082773): 10/08/2017: No publications found in PubMed, verifying study status with principal investigator