BACKGROUND There are growing numbers of patients with end-stage renal disease globally at an unexpected rate. Today, the most serious challenge in transplantation is organ shortage; hence, using deceased donor is increasingly encouraged. OBJECTIVES The aim of the study was to investigate the differences in survival rates between kidney transplant recipients with deceased donor and living dono...

Living kidney donation is declining in theUnited States.Weexamined longitudinal trends in living donation as a function of median household income and donor relation to assess the effect of financial barriers on donation in a changing economic environment. The zip code–level median household income of all 71,882 living donors was determined by linkage to the 2000 US Census. Longitudinal changes...

BACKGROUND Proteinuria is an indicator of subsequent renal function decline in most nephropathies and early proteinuria has been assumed to be a risk factor of poor kidney transplant outcomes. However, there is no information about the effect of earlier-proteinuria at the first week on short-term graft function after living donor renal transplantation. METHODS Retrospective cohort study of 43...

BACKGROUND/AIMS Living donor nephrectomy can be associated with increases in blood pressure several years following the procedure, but the best method to assess blood pressure during the living donor evaluation process is unclear. METHODS Living kidney donors underwent casual clinic and ambulatory blood pressure monitoring (ABPM) and measurement of central aortic pressures at baseline and 6 m...

Kidney transplantation, particularly from a living donor, is considered the treatment of choice for selected patients with end-stage renal disease (ESRD). A successful transplantation not only provides a better quality of life but also a survival advantage to the transplanted patient [1]. The superior results which can be achieved with kidney transplantation from living donors and the limited s...