BACKGROUND The shortage of living-related and cadaveric donors lead to living-unrelated kidney transplant in Iran. OBJECTIVE We conducted this study to determine the motivations for unrelated-living kidney donation in Khuzestan province, southwestern Iran. METHODS After obtaining an informed written consent, unrelated-living kidney donors were interviewed by the authors by means of a standa...

BACKGROUND Allografts from living donors survive longer than those from deceased donors but the role of HLA mismatching in living kidney donation is still in question. We examined the effect of HLA compatibility on kidney allograft survival from living donors by studying all first adult kidney transplants performed in the United States over 25 years. METHODS Using the United Network for Organ...

OBJECTIVE To review a single center's experience and outcome with living donor transplants. SUMMARY BACKGROUND DATA Outcome after living donor transplants is better than after cadaver donor transplants. Since the inception of the authors' program, they have performed 2,540 living donor transplants. For the most recent cohort of recipients, improvements in patient care and immunosuppressive pr...

Living donor kidney transplantation is an amazing act of altruism that forever affects the life of the donor and that of the recipient and his or her family. Some of the greatest triumphs of modern surgery are associated with living donor transplantation. Those achievements result from a high degree of inspired and extremely diligent work by multidisciplinary medical teams and from the courage ...

BACKGROUND AND OBJECTIVES Living donor kidney transplantation, the treatment of choice for ESRD, is underused by women and blacks. To better understand sex differences in the context of potential barriers to living donor kidney transplantation, the Dialysis Patient Transplant Questionnaire was administered in two urban, predominantly black hemodialysis units. DESIGN, SETTING, PARTICIPANTS, & ...

BACKGROUND AND OBJECTIVES In living-donor kidney transplantation, various donor factors, including gender, age, and baseline kidney function, predict allograft function and recipient outcomes after transplantation. Because higher phosphorus is predictive of vascular injury in healthy adults, the effect of donor phosphorus levels on recipient renal function after transplantation was investigated...

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...

BACKGROUND Renal transplantation is the treatment of choice for most patients with end stage renal disease. In addition, renal biopsy is the gold standard to assess the causes of renal allograft dysfunction. This study was designed to evaluate and designate renal lesions according to Banff schema. METHODS In this cross-sectional study, all renal allograft biopsies obtained from renal transpla...

background: one of the factors that have impact on the health status of elderly people is living alone. this study was conducted to examine the living condition of elderly population in babol and probable differences which this condition induced on the health disorders of elderly people. methods: this cross-sectional study was performed on 1544 elderly people aged 60 and over in amirkola, babol...

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...