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Urology
Angela Ernst
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Clinical and histopathological characteristics of acute kidney injury in a cohort of brain death donors with procurement biopsies
Kidney biopsies are routinely used for diagnostic and prognostic purposes but their utility in the intensive care unit (ICU) setting is limited. We investigated the associations of clinical and histopathologic...
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Histological and clinical evaluation of discarded kidneys in a European cohort of deceased brain death donor kidneys of marginal quality
Despite organ shortages, the discard rate of deceased donor kidneys is high. Risk factors for this trend warrant further study.
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Open AccessShort-term outcomes after transplantation of deceased donor kidneys with acute kidney injury: a retrospective analysis of a multicenter cohort of marginal donor kidneys with post-explantation biopsies
Deceased donor kidneys with acute kidney injury (AKI) are often discarded because of concerns about inferior transplant outcomes. A means of grading the quality of such kidneys is the performance of procuremen...
