BACKGROUND The living-donor and dual kidney transplantation programmes were initiated in the transplantation centre of Münster (TCM) as two approaches to compensate for the declining numbers of cadaver donor kidney transplants after the implementation of the new Eurotransplant Kidney Allocation System (ETKAS). We analysed the outcome of cadaver, living-donor and dual kidney transplantation and ...

Living donor kidney transplantation is an amazing act of altruism that forever affects the life of the donor and that of the recipient and his or her family. Some of the greatest triumphs of modern surgery are associated with living donor transplantation. Those achievements result from a high degree of inspired and extremely diligent work by multidisciplinary medical teams and from the courage ...

K idney transplantation is the treatment of choice for patients with end-stage renal disease (ESRD). Improvement in surgical care, tissue typing, and immuno-suppression management has dramatically improve the outcome of kidney transplant recipients. With all of these achievements, organ shortage globally is one the challenges facing trans-plantation. One step for meeting this need is utilizatio...

Donor selection for allografting of a non-paired vital organ, such as the heart, is necessarily limited to cadaveric or possibly xenogeneic sources. In contrast, because of the presence in most normal persons of two kidneys – each with a physiological reserve capable of providing four times the minimal required function – renal transplantation has become an accepted medical procedure using cada...

BACKGROUND Little is known about efforts that renal transplant candidates make to recruit live donors. It was hypothesized that preference for live donor kidney transplantation and greater knowledge about live donor transplantation are associated with candidates' initiating conversations about donation with potential donors. DESIGN, SETTING, PARTICIPANTS, & MEASUREMENTS A cross-sectional stud...

During the last few years, the number of living donor kidney transplants has increased and this form of transplantation is currently the only option in some patients. We report two cases of living donor kidney transplantation in which the donor carried monoclonal gammopathy of undetermined significance. Neither of the two receptors has developed complications at 42 and 36 months after transplan...