Living kidney donation: outcomes, ethics, and uncertainty

PP Reese, N Boudville, AX Garg - The Lancet, 2015 - thelancet.com
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 …

KDIGO clinical practice guideline on the evaluation and care of living kidney donors

KL Lentine, BL Kasiske, AS Levey, PL Adams… - …, 2017 - journals.lww.com
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 paired donation

CB Wallis, KP Samy, AE Roth… - Nephrology Dialysis …, 2011 - academic.oup.com
Kidney paired donation (KPD) was first suggested in 1986, but it was not until 2000 when
the first paired donation transplant was performed in the USA. In the past decade, KPD has …

Predictors and outcomes of delayed graft function after living‐donor kidney transplantation

RR Redfield, JR Scalea, TJ Zens, B Muth… - Transplant …, 2016 - Wiley Online Library
Delayed graft function (DGF) following deceased donor kidney transplantation is associated
with inferior outcomes. Delayed graft function following living‐donor kidney transplantation …

[PDF][PDF] Czech‐Austrian kidney paired donation: first European cross‐border living donor kidney exchange

GA Böhmig, J Fronek, A Slavcev, GF Fischer… - Transplant …, 2017 - academia.edu
Dear Editors, Kidney paired donation (KPD) is an efficient strategy to circumvent major
immunological barriers in patients who have a willing and medically able, but incompatible …

Living kidney donation: strategies to increase the donor pool

LY Lee, TA Pham, ML Melcher - Surgical Clinics, 2019 - surgical.theclinics.com
End-stage renal disease (ESRD) remains a significant disease burden in the world. In the
United States, 703,243 patients were living with renal failure in 2015. 1 Although dialysis …

[HTML][HTML] Impact of the COVID-19 pandemic on commercial airlines in the United States and implications for the kidney transplant community

AT Strauss, D Cartier, BA Gunning, BJ Boyarsky… - American Journal of …, 2020 - Elsevier
Many deceased-donor and living-donor kidney transplants (KTs) rely on commercial airlines
for transport. However, the coronavirus-19 pandemic has drastically impacted the …

[HTML][HTML] Prolonged ischemic time, delayed graft function, and graft and patient outcomes in live donor kidney transplant recipients

AR Krishnan, G Wong, JR Chapman, PT Coates… - American Journal of …, 2016 - Elsevier
The association between prolonged cold ischemic time (CIT) and graft and patient outcomes
in live donor kidney transplant recipients remains unclear. The aims of this study were to …

Allocation and matching in kidney exchange programs

K Glorie, B Haase‐Kromwijk… - Transplant …, 2014 - Wiley Online Library
Living donor kidney transplantation is the preferred treatment for patients suffering from end‐
stage renal disease. To alleviate the shortage of kidney donors, many advances have been …

[HTML][HTML] Kidney paired donation in the presence of donor-specific antibodies

JM Blumberg, HA Gritsch, EF Reed, JM Cecka… - Kidney international, 2013 - Elsevier
Incompatible donor/recipient pairs with broadly sensitized recipients have difficulty finding a
crossmatch-compatible match, despite a large kidney paired donation pool. One approach …