ArticleClinical and experimental nephrology2020
Medical evaluation of living kidney donors with nephrolithiasis: a survey of practices in the United States.
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- Do Factors Influencing Acceptance of Kidney Stone Formers as Donors Predict Subsequent Stone Events?Clinical transplantation · 2025Article
- Throwing stones: kidney stone incidence in living kidney donor candidates with increased metabolic risk.Renal failure · 2023Article
- FLEXIBLE URETERORENOSCOPY AND LASER LITHOTRIPSY IN A PATIENT WITH A STONE IN THE TRANSPLANTED KIDNEY: A CASE REPORT.Acta clinica Croatica · 2023Article
- Short-term outcome of kidney transplantation from deceased donors with nephrolithiasis.Zhong nan da xue xue bao. Yi xue ban = Journal of Central South University. Medical sciences · 2022Article
- Clinical and Kidney Structural Characteristics of Living Kidney Donors With Nephrolithiasis and Their Long-term Outcomes.Transplantation direct · 2022Article
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Abstract
backgroundA scarcity of organs has driven the transplant community to broaden selection criteria for both living and deceased donors. Living donor transplants offer better patient and allograft survival when compared with deceased donor transplants. Many transplant centers now allow complex living donors such as those with nephrolithiasis to undergo nephrectomy.
methodsWe conducted a survey of medical and surgical directors of kidney transplant programs in the United States to shed light on current practices pertaining to medical evaluation of living kidney donors with nephrolithiasis. 353 surveys were e-mailed to medical directors and surgical directors of transplant programs after contacts were obtained from UNOS.
results49 completed surveys were returned (13.9%). 77.7% (38/49) of survey participants said their centers will consider living kidney donor candidates with a history of symptomatic kidney stones, 69.4% (34/49) said their centers will consider candidates who are incidentally found to have kidney stones and 10.2% (5/49) said their centers decline all potential donors with nephrolithiasis.
conclusionsSeveral programs are still reluctant to allow potential donors with nephrolithiasis to donate. There is an unmet need to develop evidence-based guidelines to optimize outcomes in this population of kidney donors with nephrolithiasis and their recipients.
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