Long-term safety of living kidney donation (LKD), especially for young donors, has become a
real matter of concern in the transplant community and may contribute to creating resistance …

Nearly 100,000 patients are waiting for a kidney transplant, yet each year only 11,000
undergo transplantation with a deceased donor kidney. Annual death rates among waitlist …

Living donor kidney transplantation is the preferred treatment option for ESRD. However,
recent data suggest a small increase in the long-term risk of kidney failure in living kidney …

Live donor kidney transplantation (LDKT) is a superior option for most patients with ESRD
compared with dialysis and deceased donor kidney transplantation (1). Much effort occurs in …

Despite its superior outcomes relative to chronic dialysis and deceased donor kidney
transplantation, live donor kidney transplantation (LDKT) is less likely to occur in minorities …

We surveyed US transplant programs to assess practices used to assess kidney health in
living kidney donor candidates in 2017; the response rate was 31%. In this report, we focus …

In response to recently published KDIGO (Kidney Disease: Improving Global Outcomes)
guidelines for the care of kidney transplant recipients (KTRs), the National Kidney …

Abstract The Best Practice in Live Kidney Donation Consensus Conference held in June of
2014 included the Best Practices in Living Donor Education Workgroup, whose charge was …

Methods We conducted a scoping review to map the published literature to different themes
related to an efficient donor candidate evaluation. We reviewed the websites of living donor …

Living donor kidney transplantation (LDKT) offers better quality of life and clinical outcomes,
including patient survival, compared with remaining on dialysis or receiving a deceased …