In living donor kidney transplantation there are disproportionately more female-to-male donations and fewer male-to-female donations. Given the rapid increase in living donor transplantation, we studied gender demographics and outcomes of these transplants. We analyzed living donor kidney transplants in the Scientific Registry of Transplant Recipients (SRTR) database between 1990 and 1999. Ther...

OBJECTIVE Kidney transplantation with a living donor has proved to be an effective solution for kidney patients on the waiting list for transplantation. Nevertheless, it may be difficult to find a living kidney donor. The purpose of this explorative study is to investigate how kidney transplant candidates may, or may not, find a living donor in the Netherlands. METHODS We compared a group of ...

Living donor transplantation is an accepted clinical practice in select transplant centers in Western countries to increase the availability of organs, while is standard practice in East Asian transplant programs. Living-donor right hepatic lobe resection is a particularly risky operation, with two mandatory outcomes: no serious complications for the donor, and an optimal graft-recipient body w...

AIM To compare laparoscopic and open living donor nephrectomy, based on the results from a single center during a decade. METHODS This is a retrospective review of all living donor nephrectomies performed at the Massachusetts General Hospital, Harvard Medical School, Boston, between 1/1998 - 12/2009. Overall there were 490 living donors, with 279 undergoing laparoscopic living donor nephrecto...

Due to high incidence of kidney failure and ESRD cases, the need for better more effective treatments increases increase life span patients their quality life. One useful treatment methods in with severe renal is transplantation, which performed two ways: transplantation from a living donor cadaveric donor. Considering that almost most who are candidates transplant surgery young or middle-aged,...

Abstract BACKGROUND AND AIMS Living donor kidney transplantation (LDKT) provides the best outcomes of all renal replacement modalities, including survival and quality life. Studies on association between pre-donation estimated glomerular filtration rate (eGFR) graft have yielded inconsistent results. Two eGFR thresholds are generally used to accept or deny a (respectively, ≥90 <60 mL/min...