Expanding the Donor Pool - Preliminary Outcome of Kidney Recipients from Infected Donors

Background: The number of cadaver donors is far beyond demand. The use of marginaldonors may increase the number of organs available for transplantation.Methods: We expanded our criteria for cadaver donors to include those with activeinfections. From January 2004 through August 2005, there were 25 cadaverictransplantations in our center. Infected donors accounted for 13 transplantsand the remaining 12 that were not infected were used as the control subjects.Blood and infected locus cultures were performed before transplantationand the recipients were treated accordingly.Results: There were no statistically significant differences between post-transplantationcreatinine levels of the kidneys from infected and non-infected donors at1 month (1.50