Background: Long-term health risks for adults who donate kidneys are unclear. Purpose: To
summarize evidence about mid-and long-term health risks associated with living kidney …

In the past decade, there have been increasing efforts to better define and quantify the short-
and long-term risks of living kidney donation. Recent studies have expanded upon the …

Abstract The 2017 Kidney Disease: Improving Global Outcomes (KDIGO) Clinical Practice
Guideline on the Evaluation and Care of Living Kidney Donors is intended to assist medical …

Kidney Disease: Improving Global Outcomes (KDIGO) engaged an evidence review team
and convened a work group to produce a guideline to evaluate and manage candidates for …

Two recent matched cohort studies from the USA and Norway published in 2014 have
raised some concerns related to the long-term safety of kidney living donation. Further …

Historically, to minimize risks, living kidney donors have been highly selected and healthy.
Operative risks are well-defined, yet concern remains about long-term risks. In the general …

Living kidney donation benefits recipients and society but carries short-term and long-term
risks for the donor. This Review summarizes the studies that underlie our current …

While there have been numerous studies of living kidney donors, most have been
retrospective without suitable controls and have yielded conflicting results. To clarify this we …

Communicating the current knowledge of medical outcomes after live kidney donation
necessary to support donor candidates in well informed decision-making requires grounding …

Abstract Evaluation of GFR, required in the evaluation of living kidney donor candidates, is
now receiving increasing emphasis because recent data demonstrate increased risk of …