Kidney Transplant Outcomes From Donors Who Received Dialysis—Reply

In Reply In response to specific points raised by Drs Yang and Tebbutt, kidney donors in our study received in-center hemodialysis during their hospitalization at the time of donation. Warm ischemic time was calculated as the number of minutes from withdrawal to cross-clamp time in donors after cardiac death. The donors after cardiac death who had undergone dialysis (n = 35) had similar warm ischemic time (median, 28 minutes [IQR, 22.5-34.0 minutes]) vs the 35 donors after cardiac death who had not undergone dialysis (median, 27 minutes [IQR, 21.0-31.0 minutes]) (standardized mean difference, 0.08).