Individual glomerular filtration rates in renovascular hypertension.

The increased success achieved with cadaveric transplantation makes it unethical to consider using a kidney from a young live donor, especially from a woman in the reproductive period of life. There may still occasionally be circumstances in which a kidney from a parent could reasonably be used, especially if the parent is old enough not to have responsibility for a young family. It is completely unjustified to use a kidney from an unrelated live donor, which offers no greater likelihood of success than a cadaveric kidney.