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Function Based Donor/Recipient Matching in ECD Kidney Transplantation Using the Creatinine Clearance Match Ratio (CCMR) Jamie E Anderson and Jeffrey B Halldorson Department of Surgery, University of California, CA, USA
Abbreviations: TBMI: Body Mass Index, CCMR: Creatinine Clearance Match Ratio, eCrCl: Estimated Creatinine Clearance, ECD: Expanded Criteria Donor, HR: Hazard Ratio, KDRI: Kidney Donor Risk Index, OR: Odds Ratio, SCD: Standard Criteria Donor, SRTR: Scientific Registry of Transplant Recipients Function Based Donor/Recipient Matching in ECD Kidney Transplantation Expanded criteria donor kidneys (ECD) have the potential to greatly increase the number of kidneys available for transplantation; however utilization is limited by poorer outcomes [1-5]. One strategy to improve outcomes and secondarily utilization is improved matching of kidneys based on recipient factors such as surface area [6,7], kidney graft size to recipient weight [8] and kidney weight to recipient weight [9,10]. Recently our group developed the creatinine clearance match ratio (CCMR) as an improved matching technique. The CCMR is calculated using a manipulation of the Cockcroft-Gault equation estimating the creatinine clearance required by the recipient at a serum creatinine level of 1.0 thereby producing an estimated value for an individual’s creatinine production and in intellectual shorthand, “nephron need” [11,12]. We simply asked; “how much Creatinine clearance would a potential recipient require to achieve a post-transplant serum creatinine of 1.0,” and then created a variable utilizing Cockcroft-Gault estimated donor creatinine clearance from known donor variables. Simplification results in the equation below. CCMR = (140-agerecepient)*(Mass in Kgrecepient)*(0.85 if female)/ (140-agedonor)*(Wt in Kgdonor)*(0.85 if female)/(Serum Cr mg/dLdonor) Put simply, a high creatinine producer (numerator) matched to a donor kidney with a lower estimated creatinine clearance (denominator) produces a higher value. Conversely, a low creatinine producer (numerator) matched to a kidney with a higher estimated clearance (denominator) results in a lower value. Briefly summarizing the findings of our study of 25,640 ECD kidney transplants: 1) multivariate analysis demonstrated higher CCMR was associated with increased graft failure and odds of requiring dialysis within the first week (comparing highest ratio quintile versus lowest ratio quintile: HR 1.43, p
