Comparison of UW and Celsior: Long-term results in kidney transplantation

Summary Results: Donors criteria were worse in the Celsior group for age, male sex, creatinemia, and cold ischemia. Populations of recipients were comparable. There were no differenc- es at 1 and 12 months in creatinine levels (p=0.9 and 0.8, respectively) and in num- ber of delayed graft functions (DGF) (p=0.8 and relative risk =0.9) between groups. There were no differences in post-transplantation outcomes for all variables. At 5 years, graft survival was 90.4% for UW and 93.5% for Celsior (p=0.44). Conclusions: Our retrospective study did not succeed in demonstrating superiority of a High Na+; low K+ solution compared to a UW type reference solution. Celsior has the same ef- fectiveness as UW during kidney cold storage.