Back in 2010, California’s legislature bought into Steve Jobs’ charisma and passed the nation’s first living kidney donor registry. Not the type of registry we donor activists are fighting for, the type that would collect data about living donors’ health and well-being after donation, but a government approved list of folks who would be willing …
Category Archive: Living Kidney Donor
Living Kidney Donor, Live Kidney Donation
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Kidney Donors Kidneys Not ‘Recovering’ as Well as Initially Thought
At one year post-nephrectomy, 131 (78%) donors had a 25% or greater increase in plasma creatinine, 27% had a 50% or greater increase, and 31% had a 0.4 mg/dL or greater increase in plasma creatinine compared with their pre-donation values. Creatinine is a by product of muscle metabolism. It’s also the main indicator of …
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Obesity (BMI of 35 or higher) Causing Potential Living Kidney Donor Rejections
Of 450 living kidney donor candidates, 398 were rejected for donation and 52 were approved. Candidates who were rejected had a mean BMI of 28.9 kg/m2, which was significantly higher than the mean 25.9 kg/m2 for the approved group, Of candidates approved for donation, only 11.5% were obese (BMI above 30) and 88.5% were non-obese (BMI …
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Living Kidney Donor Blood Pressure, Plasma Arginine & Glomerular Filtration Rate
Two living kidney donor related publications hit the google alerts this weekend. The first, from Serbian researchers, observes that not only does renal function (GFR) decrease abruptly following live donor nephrectomy, so does plasma arginine. Arginine is an animo acid. It plays an important role in cell division, wound healing (which requires cell …
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Two International Living Kidney Donor Articles of Note
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.
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