Living Related Kidney Donors

Controversies related to living kidney donors

BACKGROUND Increasing the living-donor pool by accepting donors with an isolated medical abnormality (IMA) can significantly decrease the huge gap between limited supply and rising demand for organs. There is a wide range of variation among different centres in dealing with these categories of donors. We reviewed studies discussing living kidney donors with IMA, including greater age, obesity, ...

Iranian Living Related Donors: Motivation for Kidney Donation

The best treatment option for chronic renal failure is kidney transplant [1] whose success depends on donor-recipient human leukocyte antigens (HLA) compatibility [2]. The risk of transplant rejection is much lower once there is a blood relationship between donor and recipient. Therefore, family donor kidney transplant (FDKT) is among the most ideal treatment options which significantly improve...

Living Kidney Donation: The Outcomes for Donors

During the past decade, the number of transplantation from living kidney donors has substantially increased worldwide. The rate of increase varies from one country to another. The risk of unilateral nephrectomy to the donor includes perioperative mortality and morbidity plus the long-term risk of living with a single kidney. The rate of perioperative mortality and morbidity is about 0.03% and 1...

Evaluation of Potential Living Kidney Donors

Reassessing medical risk in living kidney donors.

The short- and long-term effects of unilateral nephrectomy on living donors have been important considerations for 60 years. Short-term risk is well established (0.03% mortality and <1% risk of major morbidity), but characterization of long-term risk is evolving. Relative to the general population, risk of mortality, ESRD, hypertension, proteinuria, and cardiovascular disease is comparable or l...