Living Kidney Donors Who Develop Kidney Failure: Excerpts of Their Thoughts

Living Kidney Donors Who Develop Kidney Failure: Excerpts of Their Thoughts.

BACKGROUND Psychosocial data about living kidney donors have been collected for almost 5 decades now. To date, however, no study has provided any psychosocial follow-up of donors who developed a serious health problem such as end-stage renal disease (ESRD). METHODS Donors who developed ESRD were invited to participate in a qualitative interview if they met one or both of the inclusion criteri...

Income of living kidney donors and the income difference between living kidney donors and their recipients in the United States.

Disincentives for living kidney donation are common but are poorly understood. We studied 54 483 living donor kidney transplants in the United States between 2000 and 2009, limiting to those with valid zip code data to allow determination of median household income by linkage to the 2000 U.S. Census. We then determined the income and income difference of donors and recipients. The median househ...

Outcomes of living kidney donors with medullary sponge kidney

BACKGROUND Patients with medullary sponge kidney (MSK) commonly encounter recurrent nephrolithiasis. The existing knowledge on safety of donors with MSK has not been studied. METHODS We conducted a retrospective cohort study at a tertiary referral hospital to assess the outcomes of living kidney donors with MSK. All adults with MSK (N = 26) who underwent nephrectomy as living kidney donors be...

The donation process of living kidney donors.

BACKGROUND The rates of both genetic and non-genetic living donors are increasing. However, previous research has almost exclusively explored the decision-making of genetic donors. Therefore, in this study both genetic and non-genetic donors are investigated with focus on their whole donation process. METHODS Thirty-nine donors were interviewed the day before nephrectomy and 3 weeks afterward...

Evaluation of Potential Living Kidney Donors