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 …

Due to the shortage of deceased and genetically-or emotionally-related living donors, living
unrelated paid donor (LURpD) kidney transplantation has been considered; however, this …

Living donation challenges the ethical principle of non-maleficence in that it exposes healthy
persons to risks for the benefit of someone else. This makes safety, informed consent (IC) …

Background Approximately 40% of the kidneys for transplant worldwide come from living
donors. Despite advantages of living donor transplants, rates have stagnated in recent …

The education, evaluation, and support of living donors before, during, and after donation
have historically been considered the roles and responsibilities of transplant programs …

Esta guía de recomendaciones para el TR de donante vivo (TRDV) es un documento
elaborado con el patrocinio de la Sociedad Española de Nefrología, la Sociedad Española …

In light of the transplant community's efforts to increase living donation, preserving donor
autonomy is essential. Understanding how often and the reasons why potential living kidney …

Understanding why individuals opt out of living donation is crucial to enhancing protections
for all living donors and to identify modifiable barriers to donation. We developed an ethical …

Aim To describe the direct and indirect costs incurred by Australian living kidney donors.
Methods A total of 55 living kidney donors from three centres in Perth, Australia and one …

Informed consent is clearly considered the ethical bedrock fundamental to living organ
donation, a procedure lacking medical benefits for its participants. Recent guidelines have …