Live Donor Kidney Transplantation Pearls: A Practical Review

Submit Manuscript | http://medcraveonline.com with less consumption of health care resources compared with dialysis [1]. Renal failure is a common health problem with rapid increase in the number of patients. The shortage of donors is an obstacle that limits kidney transplantation as a treatment option. Living donation is gaining popularity especially with the superior outcomes of living donor’s kidney transplantations as compared to the cadaveric donors. The rates of living-donor kidney transplantation steadily rise in most regions of the world [2]. It is considered the best choice for most patients [3]. Therefore, much effort has been made to increase the supply of living donors. The first successful kidney transplant program was carried out at Peter Bent Brigham hospital in Boston, in 1954, Dr. Joseph Murray performed the first successful kidney transplant between identical twin [4]. Cross skin grafting was performed between the 2 brothers and skin grafts survived for weeks establishing “genetic identity”. Thirty days later, kidney transplantation was performed. During the next four years, the team performed seven more transplants. The patient died after eight years due to development of recurrent glomerulonephritis in the transplanted kidney [5].