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The Ultimate Gift
A
newsletter from the transplant team
at Rhode Island Hospital
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Seven Years of Transplantation
in Rhode Island
March 24, 2005 marks the seven-year anniversary for the first patients
transplanted at Rhode Island Hospital. On that day two recipients
received cadaver renal transplants from kidneys from a teenage gunshot
victim. One transplant coordinator, one nephrologist and two surgeons
who covered RIH from their practice location in Boston ran the program.
Over the years, we added staff, developed programs in donation
after cardiac death, pancreas transplantation and "Good Samaritan"
donation. We have been active participants in research on the use
of expanded criteria donors and the treatment of chronic allograft
nephropathy.
Listed below are the highlights and local
transplant records for our program.
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Seven-Year Statistics
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Total number of transplants
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457
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Cadaver renal transplants
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248
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Live donor transplants
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209
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Mean recipient age
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45.8
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Mean donor age
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40.1
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Male recipients
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278 (61%)
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Female recipients
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179
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ESRD due to IDDM
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111 (24%)
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Nadir creatinine (mean)
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1.35
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Current creatinine (mean)
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1.56
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Length of stay (days)
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7.88
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Length of stay (donor)
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3.67
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Donors
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Traditional flank incision
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156
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Laparoscopic
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23
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Mini-open donor*
* Since November 2005
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30
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Donors after cardiac death
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29
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Pancreas transplantation
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12
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Transplant Records
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Longest functioning CRT (days)
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2557
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Longest surviving LRRT (days)
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2487
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Oldest recipient (years)
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76
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Youngest recipient
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3
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Oldest donor
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79
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Youngest donor
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4
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Most renal transplants*
* Nine patients
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3
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Cold ischemic time (hours)
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Shortest
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3
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Longest
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35
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