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A significant number of deceased donor kidneys donated for transplantation are not used and are thrown away due to lack of ways of checking their condition and function before the operation. This significantly reduces the number of potentially life saving transplants. The researchers wish to run a small pilot study to see if it is possible to improve the way transplant kidneys are assessed before transplantation by measuring how well they filter the blood, and how good their metabolism is. The researchers believe this new method will help transplant surgeons make better decisions about which kidneys to use. This pilot study will look at 10 kidneys obtained from older deceased donors. These kidneys are most at risk of being thrown away because of the condition of the donor they came from. At the hospital, these kidneys are usually put onto a machine which pumps cold preservation solution through them for a couple of hours. This time lets the transplant surgeons see how well or poorly the kidney responds to the flowing fluid. In this study the research team will do exactly the same, but also insert a small probe less than a millimetre in diameter into the kidney and the vein (draining blood pipe) and urine output to monitor a number of chemicals made by the kidney. The researchers believe that the changing levels of these chemicals will give the surgeons much more information than they have now. This probe is removed when the kidney is transplanted. Combining these levels with news of how well the patients recover after surgery will allow the research team to design a much larger study to get the right level of information to change the way surgeons choose kidneys and help more transplants happen in the future.


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NCT number NCT04619732
Study type Interventional
Source Accunea Ltd.
Contact Robert M Learney, MBBS PhD
Phone 02088741839
Email robertlearney@accunea.com
Status Recruiting
Phase N/A
Start date July 1, 2021
Completion date April 30, 2023

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