Living unrelated donor kidney transplantation. survival rates were attributed to the fact that kidneys Background. Living unrelated donors remain an underutifrom living donors were uniformly healthy. lized resource, despite their high graft survival rates. In this Even then, evidence of unexpectedly high graft surarticle, we updated the long-term results of more than 2500 vival rates in living ...

BACKGROUND Literature review suggests that adherence to immunosuppressive drugs may be lower in recipients of living than of deceased donor kidney grafts, possibly because of profile differences. OBJECTIVE To compare the level of immunosuppressive adherence levels between patients with deceased and living (-related; -unrelated) donor grafts in Switzerland. METHODS Using data from two simila...

BACKGROUND Much remains to be done to facilitate the transplantation process for patients with end-stage renal disease. The aim here was to explore these patients' experiences of the donation process and factors related to whether the actual donors of the recipients were living or deceased and describe which issues needed attention in a quality development project. METHOD A specially construc...

PURPOSE We evaluated unrelated living kidney donation in the United States and examined the characteristics of unrelated donor-recipient pairs. MATERIALS AND METHODS We accessed United Network for Organ Sharing files to identify adult living donor renal transplant recipients who received a transplant between 1997 and 2007. We evaluated factors associated with unrelated donation and compared a...