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 …
Category Archive: Living Donor Risks
Risks related to being a living organ donor
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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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Aren’t We Missing Something (Like the Living Donors?)
In this abstract, about two parents having their kidney and liver lobe harvested for their children, it speaks of both recipients’ ‘normal’ liver and kidney function. You know what it doesn’t say? How the living organ DONORS are faring at 18 months and 33 months post-surgery. I mean, I’m assuming neither of the donors are dead, …
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Study Looking for Living Kidney Donors With End-Stage Renal Disease
[Note: If you or anyone you know is a living kidney donor with ESRD, please contact this group as soon as possible. Everything contributed will help hundreds of thousands of current and future U.S. living kidney donors] A group of nephrologists, transplant surgeons, and clinical researchers at the University of Chicago in collaboration with …
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Kidney Donors Six-Months Post-Donation
Another new publication that isn’t available in full unless one is independently wealthy, but here’s the abstract. In short, 208 living kidney donors were compared with 198 two-kidneyed controls, both pre-donation and six-months post-donation. Compared with controls, donors had 28% lower glomerular filtration rates [GFR aka kidney function] at 6 months, – associated …
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