Living unrelated donor kidney transplantation. survival rates were attributed to the fact that kidneys Background. Living unrelated donors remain an underutifrom living donors were uniformly healthy. lized resource, despite their high graft survival rates. In this Even then, evidence of unexpectedly high graft surarticle, we updated the long-term results of more than 2500 vival rates in living ...

BACKGROUND Data regarding health outcomes among living kidney donors are lacking, especially among nonwhite persons. METHODS We linked identifiers from the Organ Procurement and Transplantation Network (OPTN) with administrative data of a private U.S. health insurer and performed a retrospective study of 4650 persons who had been living kidney donors from October 1987 through July 2007 and wh...

Renal transplantation from living kidney donors is still relatively marginal in most of the European countries. However, this source of kidney grafts may help to overcome in part the organ donor shortage of cadaveric donors. The living donor strategy implies correct and objective information about donation risks and completely free acceptance of the living candidate of the donation. In this pap...

introduction and aims: considering high prevalence of hepatitis b virus (hbv) in iran and need for its prevention, determination of causes and risk factors can help health policy makers in control of disease. materials and methods: all blood donors of tehran city from april 1997 to march 2000 were studied in a case control design. hbsag positive donors who were referred to hepatitis consultatio...

Disincentives for living kidney donation are common but are poorly understood. We studied 54 483 living donor kidney transplants in the United States between 2000 and 2009, limiting to those with valid zip code data to allow determination of median household income by linkage to the 2000 U.S. Census. We then determined the income and income difference of donors and recipients. The median househ...

BACKGROUND AND OBJECTIVES In living kidney donation, transplant professionals consider the rights of a living kidney donor and recipient to keep their personal health information confidential and the need to disclose this information to the other for informed consent. In incompatible kidney exchange, personal health information from multiple living donors and recipients may affect decision maki...

BACKGROUND Deceased donor organ shortage has made living donors (LD) major source for renal transplantation (RTx) in India. Spouses represent an important source of allograft. We carried out a retrospective study of spousal RTx vs. other LDRTx to compare long-term results. METHODS This retrospective single-center study was undertaken to evaluate demographic, patient survival, graft survival, ...

While cautious criteria for selection of living kidney donors are credited for favorable outcomes, recent practice changes may include acceptance of less than ideal donors. To characterize trends in donor acceptance, the Renal and Lung Living Donors Evaluation (RELIVE) Study evaluated 8,951 kidney donors who donated between 1963 and 2007 at three major U.S. transplant centers. Over the study in...