Biomarkers of Kidney Function in Transplant Medicine

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Biomarkers of kidney function in transplant medicine is an international, multicentre, observational, non-interventional study. The project is aimed at monitoring biomarkers of acute kidney dysfunction in deceased organ donors, living organ donors, and organ recipients.

The study is observational, without any changes from the standard care, including only selected laboratory assessments, from standard blood samples collected from the donors/recipients. Informed consent will be required from living donors and recipients. The mainly used current criteria of organ acceptability in transplant medicine include urine output and laboratory parameters of acute kidney dysfunction - serum levels of urea and creatinine. Literary sources show that these classic criteria of kidney dysfunction develop only with a significant reduction of (glomerular and tubular) kidney functions and return to normal only slowly after the function of the kidneys has been restored. New possibilities of early kidney dysfunction diagnostics are being studied, using more sensitive tests - determination of biomarkers of acute kidney dysfunction. These may serve as decisive criteria for the safe use of organs from so-called marginal donors and identify early serious impairment of kidney function in donors with preserved urine output, without fulfilled criteria of acute kidney injury.

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