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. 2019 Feb 28:2019:6302153.
doi: 10.1155/2019/6302153. eCollection 2019.

Introducing of the First DCD Kidney Transplantation Program in Poland

Honorata Stadnik  1 , Tomasz Małkiewicz  2 , Michał Stronka  1 , Lucyna Cichańska  1 , Łukasz Kawalec  2 , Mateusz Puślecki  3 , Marcin Ligowski  3 , Marcin Zieliński  4 , Marek Karczewski  1
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Introducing of the First DCD Kidney Transplantation Program in Poland

Honorata Stadnik et al. Biomed Res Int. .

Abstract

In many countries, including Poland, the main problem with transplantation is the insufficiency of organ donors in relation to the demand for organs. Hence, the common aim globally is to increase the pool of donors. The prolonged survival of patients after transplantation, with respect to the survival time of patients on dialysis, makes the search much more intense. After the recourse of expanded criteria donors (ECD), the next step was obtaining kidneys from donors after irreversible cardiac death (DCD). Therefore, based on Dutch, British, and Spanish experience, it can be hypothesized that the introduction of DCD procedures in countries that have not launched these programs and the improvement of DCD procedures may shorten the waiting time for organ transplantation globally. The legal basis for the procurement of organs after irreversible cardiac arrest came into existence in Poland in 2010. Previously, such organ procurements were not in practice. Since 1984, when Poland published irreversible cardiac arrest as a criterion of brain death, it became the only way to determine death prior to the procurement of organs. The aim of this report was to evaluate the results of the first 19 transplantation cases involving harvested kidneys from donors after cardiac arrest, which was irreversible and clinically confirmed, without any doubt as per the ethical protocol of DCD. Understanding, support, and public perception are essential for this program's initiation and maintenance.

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Creatinine and GRF level at the end of posttransplant hospitalization.
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Minimal creatinine level.
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Hospitalization.
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Figure 4
The contribution made by DCD kidneys to the transplant rate in Poland in 2016.
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