Dual kidney transplantation

Dual kidney transplantation

This involves the transplantation of a pair of marginal quality kidneys from the same donor into one recipient in order to provide adequate nephron mass. Both kidneys can be placed in the same iliac fossa. This approach is used for kidneys from elderly DCD donors and so-called expanded criteria donors, which are defined by age >60 years or age >50 years with at least two of the following: hypertension; terminal creatinine >133 /uni00A0 µmol/L; death from stroke.