Concerns regarding the negative impact that Cold Ischemic Time (CIT) may have on graft survival, due to the shipment of the kidneys, initially caused concern in the transplant industry and slowed the adoption of KPD.
After completing over 1,000 KPD transplants, it was discovered that NKR's graft survival rates were actually better than the graft survival rates of the typical U.S. non-KPD living donor transplants [REF].