Is proteinuria a common finding after kidney donation?

Furthermore, Gordon and Gill (1) said that the Iranian program of kidney transplantation has been a contributing factor limiting the advancement of deceased donation and living-related donation in Iran. However, the annual number of deceased donor kidney transplants rose from less than 1% of all kidney transplants at the end of 2000 to 30% in 2012. Kidney transplantation using deceased donors was initiated in 2002 at Baqiyatallah Transplant Center, the largest kidney transplant unit in Iran with more than 4200 kidney transplants over 20 years, and deceased donor transplantation annual numbers have increased from 0.4% in 2002 to 31% and 50% in 2008 and 2013, respectively. The opposite of the current editorial’s opinion (1), the Iran model for living unrelated kidney transplantation did not result in limiting the improvement of deceased donation.