Apparently the Canadians have no national standards of living donor evaluation, selection and treatment either: http://www.renalandurologynews.com/donor-criteria-consensus-sought-in-canada/article/293069/# The UK does have living donor standards, but transplant centers aren’t following them: http://ndt.oxfordjournals.org/content/early/2013/05/07/ndt.gft096.abstract This news is so disappointing, i can’t even come with anything pithy to say.
Category Archive: Living Donor Protections
Living Donor Protections
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Living Kidney Donors Wait Listed for Kidney Transplants Keeps Growing
In my last post, I promised I’d get you some updated wait listed living kidney donor numbers and here they are: As of December 31, 2012, 324 living kidney donors have been wait listed in need of their own kidney transplant.* I wrote three in-depth posts regarding this very subject back in July 2011, using …
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Proposed Kidney Allocation and Independent Donor Advocate Policies Detrimental to Living Donors
Today we have a guest post by Jane Zill, LICSW on OPTN’s proposed policies now up for public comment: The Board of the OPTN will vote on new allocation principles for deceased donor kidneys in June. These allocation principles will definitely impact living organ donors. I am very concerned about this and believe that …
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Older Living Kidney Donors at Lower Risk for End-Stage Renal Disease
Currently, many transplant centers reject prospective living kidney donors with mild hypertension or proteinuria. Steiner, in a recent article, opines that a 55 year old with an IMA (isolated medical abnormality) has a lower lifetime risk of end-stage renal disease than a younger potential living kidney donor. (emphasis mine) In 20–30% of diabetic individuals, …
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A Little Shameless Self-Promotion (and Living Donor Advocacy)
Megan Carlson wrote this bombastic article the other day, entitled: Risks of Living Organ Donation Not ‘Sinking in,’ Researcher Says. With quotes by Your Truly. Go read it; it’s awesome (not because I’m in it. That’s just a bonus). Read it here too (with photo). ** Megan’s article went live on Thursday, so naturally, it …
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