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. 2022 Mar 14;35:10312. doi: 10.3389/ti.2022.10312

TABLE 1.

Kidney quality assessment score as defined by Hosgood et al.

Kidney quality assessment score parameter Point
Macroscopic assessment
 Grade I: Excellent perfusion (global pink appearance) 0
 Grade II: Moderate perfusion (patchy appearance) 1
 Grade III: Poor perfusion (global mottled and purple/black appearance) 2
Renal Blood flow
 Threshold ≥50 ml/min/100 g 0
 Threshold <50 ml/min/100 g 1
Total urine output
 Threshold ≥50 ml/min/100 g 0
 Threshold <50 ml/min/100 g 1

Scores range from 1 to 5, 1 indicating the least injury to 5 the most severe. Reproduced from (95) with permission under Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International License (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0).