Living kidney donation continues as the cornerstone of transplantation. In order to determine with ever-renewing assurance that living donation is safe for the donor, we need to periodically review the literature, review the United Network for Organ Sharing database for donor characteristics that may put them in danger, and scour databases for donors starting dialysis and/or listed for transpla...

Editor—Nicholson and Bradley call for an increase in the donation of organs from living donors. I have held this view for several years. The negative attitudes of the directors of transplant programmes are one of the main causes of the low rate of living donation in Britain. I have suggested a donor charter to ensure that positive attitudes to living donation prevail in a transplant programme. ...

The use of volunteer living donors to patient (Table 1). Of the 40 donors, 27 were either provide kidneys for renal homotransplantaParents or siblings. The other 13 were not genetically related to the recipient. In the last group, there were has many and lega1 imthree wives, nine convicts, and one volunteer who plications. The infliction of major operative responded to a public appeal (Table h3...

In subjects with renal disease, reduced renal function and increased arterial stiffness are significantly associated in cross-sectional studies. The relationship is independent of age, blood pressure (BP), and atherosclerosis. Because both variables are independent predictors of cardiovascular risk, time-dependent relationships between them are important to determine. Aortic pulse wave velocity...

There have been two recent trends in living kidney donation: increased acceptance of living donors and increased acceptance of laparoscopic nephrectomy (LN). We surveyed 234 UNOS-listed kidney transplant programs to determine current living donor morbidity and mortality for open nephrectomy, hand-assisted LN, and non-hand-assisted LN. Of the 234 centers, 171 (73%) responded. Between 1/1/1999 an...

Some living kidney donors incur economic consequences as a result of donation; however, these costs are poorly quantified. We developed a framework to comprehensively assess economic consequences from the donor perspective including out-of-pocket cost, lost wages and home productivity loss. We prospectively enrolled 100 living kidney donors from seven Canadian centers between 2004 and 2008 and ...

Since the first living-donor kidney transplantation in 1954, more than half a million living kidney donations have occurred and research has advanced knowledge about long-term donor outcomes. Donors in developed countries have a similar life expectancy and quality of life as healthy non-donors. Living kidney donation is associated with an increased risk of end-stage renal disease, although this...

The processes leading to donor identification, consent, organ procurement, and allocation continue to dominate debates and efforts in the field of transplantation. A considerable shortage of donors remains while the number of patients needing organ transplantation increases. This article reviews the main trends in organ donation practices and procurement patterns from both deceased and living s...

Kidney exchange donation programs offer a good solution to help patients with a willing, but incompatible living kidney donor. Literature shows that blood type O patients are less likely to be selected for transplantation within a living exchange donation program. 'Altruistically unbalanced donation' could help these blood type O patients: one donor-recipient pair is incompatible (e.g. A-donor ...

Kidney transplantation, particularly from a living donor, is considered the treatment of choice for selected patients with end-stage renal disease (ESRD). A successful transplantation not only provides a better quality of life but also a survival advantage to the transplanted patient [1]. The superior results which can be achieved with kidney transplantation from living donors and the limited s...