INTRODUCTION Living unrelated kidney donation has a high rate in Iran, where a unique organ procurement model is running. We evaluated feelings and attitude of these donors after kidney donation. MATERIALS AND METHODS A questionnaire was sent to 25 kidney transplantation centers in Iran. It was designed to assess kidney allograft donors in terms of their reason for donation, their feeling aft...

BACKGROUND Living donor transplantation is described as a stressful and complex process for both recipients and donors. Few studies have described the experiences of recipients and donors in the first three post-operative days after living kidney transplantation. OBJECTIVES To explore how recipients and living donors experienced the first three post-operative days after kidney transplantation...

This study is a long-term follow-up on the health and quality of life of Good Samaritan living organ donors who donated an average of 10 years ago. Thirteen donors (kidney, liver, and lung) completed 2 surveys. Data from the RAND 36-Item Health Survey showed that for all domains, as well as the physical and mental component summary scales, the Good Samaritan donor outcomes were superior to the ...

Background: It is important to increase knowledge about and devote more attention to long-term living kidney donors. Although we have used living donors for over 40 years, they have not, until recently, undergone regular check-ups. Material and methods: A total of 1100 living donor nephrectomies were performed at our hospital from 1965-2005. We located the donors, assessed their general health ...

BACKGROUND Kidney transplantation from living donors has been increased recently. Preoperative evaluation of living donor is important to select the appropriate kidney for transplantation and to decrease donor surgical complications. OBJECTIVES The aim of this study was to compare the accuracy of the use of multidetector computed tomography (MDCT) to evaluate vascular anatomy in living kidney...

To overcome kidney donation, the pool of potentially eligible donors has been widened by using suboptimal organs harvested from living donors or cadavers. These organs may engender health complications as age, risk factors, and pathologies of donors fail to meet the standard donor criteria. After examining a wide array of literature on suboptimal kidney transplants, we evidenced two major issue...

BACKGROUND AND OBJECTIVES For eligible candidates, transplantation is considered the optimal treatment compared with dialysis for patients with ESRD. The growing number of patients with ESRD requires new strategies to increase the pool of potential donors. DESIGN, SETTING, PARTICIPANTS, & MEASUREMENTS Using decision analysis modeling, this study compared a strategy of paying living kidney don...

Previous studies have suggested that living kidney donors maintain long-term renal function and experience no increase in cardiovascular or all-cause mortality. However, most analyses have included control groups less healthy than the living donor population and have had relatively short follow-up periods. Here we compared long-term renal function and cardiovascular and all-cause mortality in l...

BACKGROUND Kidney transplantation is the treatment of choice for end-stage renal disease (ESRD). The number of patients on the waiting list is increasing due to an imbalance between organ supply and demand. This has led to an increase in the number of living donor transplants in most parts of the world. The benefits to the recipients must, however, be weighed against the risks to the donors. Lo...

OBJECTIVE To conduct an epidemiological analysis on the main microbiological markers in bone tissue that was processed at the musculoskeletal tissue bank of Hospital São Vicente de Paulo, in Passo Fundo, between August 2007 and October 2011. METHODS Between August 2007 and October 2011, 202 musculoskeletal tissue samples were collected for the tissue bank. Among these, 159 samples were from l...