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. 2019 Mar 15;2019(3):CD011671. doi: 10.1002/14651858.CD011671.pub2
Methods
  • Study design: parallel RCT

  • Duration of study: not reported

  • Duration of follow‐up: 1 year

Participants
  • Country: China

  • Setting: single centre

  • Donor characteristics

    • Mean age ± SD (years): not reported

    • Number of DCD: 36 (72 kidneys)

    • Sex (M/F); not reported

    • Inclusion criteria: not reported

    • Exclusion criteria: not reported

  • Recipient characteristics

    • Inclusion criteria: not reported

    • Exclusion criteria: not reported

    • Sex (M/F): not reported

    • Mean age ± SD (years): not reported

Interventions Machine perfusion
  • LifePort pulsatile perfusion machine; solution not reported


Static cold storage
  • Preservation solution not reported (presumed to be UW)


Mean CIT
  • Not reported

Outcomes
  • DGF

  • Acute rejection

  • Length of hospital stay

  • One‐year graft survival

Notes
  • 72 kidneys from 36 donors. All were DCD

  • One kidney from each pair assigned to MP and the other to SCS

  • CIT for the two groups was not given

  • This is a recent abstract and the full paper has not yet been published

  • Funding source: not reported

Risk of bias
Bias Authors' judgement Support for judgement
Random sequence generation (selection bias) Unclear risk Insufficient information to permit judgement
Allocation concealment (selection bias) Unclear risk Insufficient information to permit judgement
Blinding of participants and personnel (performance bias) All outcomes Unclear risk Insufficient information to permit judgement
Blinding of outcome assessment (detection bias) All outcomes Low risk Blinding not discussed, but outcome measurements are unlikely to be affected by the lack of blinding.
Incomplete outcome data (attrition bias) All outcomes Low risk All patients were followed up
Selective reporting (reporting bias) Low risk Study outcomes were appropriate, and concisely reported
Other bias Unclear risk As this is only an abstract, thorough analysis of biases is impossible