Do calcium channel blockers prevent delayed graft function after renal transplantation?
Jeffrey A Giullian* and J Harold Helderman
Correspondence *Vanderbilt University Medical Center, Division of Nephrology, 1161 21st Avenue South, S-3223, MCN, Nashville, TN 37232-2372, USA
Email jeffgiullian@yahoo.com
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DGF remains a major obstacle to the management of renal transplant recipients and directly affects outcomes. Increased cold ischemia time as a result of organ sharing over distant geographic locations has increased the risk of DGF in recipients of deceased-donor kidneys. Importantly, the recent expansion of standards for acceptable deceased donors to include extended-criteria and non-heartbeating donors, which was intended to decrease the disparity between the number of patients waiting for a kidney transplant and the number of available organs, has driven the rate of DGF ever higher.1
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