ArticleClinical kidney journal2020
Raising awareness of unspecified living kidney donation: an ELPAT view.
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19 citing papers in PubMed, 1 synthesis or guideline pooled it.
- A qualitative systematic review of anonymous/unspecified living kidney and liver donors' perspectives.PloS one · 2022Pooled it
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- Landscape of current practices and future perspectives in living donor kidney donation in Europe: proceedings of a pan-European symposium by the European kidney transplant association section of the European Society for Organ Transplantation.Transplant international : official journal of the European Society for Organ Transplantation · 2026Article
- Willingness to Become a Living Kidney Donor to a Stranger Among Polish Health Care Professionals Employed in a Dialysis Center: A National Cross-Sectional Study.Journal of clinical medicine · 2025Article
- Serial Living Solid Organ Donation: An Ethical Analysis.Journal of evaluation in clinical practice · 2025Article
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- Assessing Health-Related Quality of Life in Non-Directed Versus Directed Kidney Donors: Implications for the Promotion of Non-Directed Donation.Transplant international : official journal of the European Society for Organ Transplantation · 2024Article
- Changing landscape in living kidney donation in Greece.World journal of transplantation · 2023Review
- Exploring Staff Attitudes Towards Unspecified Kidney Donors in the United Kingdom: Results From the BOUnD Study.Transplant international : official journal of the European Society for Organ Transplantation · 2023Article
- Living Donor Kidney Transplantation in Older Individuals: An Ethical Legal and Psychological Aspects of Transplantation (ELPAT) View.Transplant international : official journal of the European Society for Organ Transplantation · 2023Article
- Twenty Years of Unspecified Kidney Donation: Unspecified Donors Looking Back on Their Donation Experiences.Transplant international : official journal of the European Society for Organ Transplantation · 2023Article
- Challenges and Opportunities in the Supply of Living Kidney Donation in the UK National Health Service: An Economic Perspective.Transplantation · 2022Article
- The altruistic elderly, a valuable but unrecognised kidney donor group. A case report of an 85-year-old unspecified kidney donor.BMC geriatrics · 2022Article
- Polish attitudes towards unspecified kidney donation: a cross-sectional study.BMC nephrology · 2022Observational
- Relinquishing Anonymity in Living Donor Kidney Transplantation: Lessons Learned From the UK Policy for Anonymous Donors.Transplant international : official journal of the European Society for Organ Transplantation · 2022Article
- Unspecified live kidney donation by urological patients.World journal of transplantation · 2020Article
- A Digital Library for Increasing Awareness About Living Donor Kidney Transplants: Formative Study.JMIR formative research · 2020Article
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Abstract
backgroundLiving donor kidney transplantation (LDKT) is the preferred treatment for patients with end-stage renal disease and unspecified living kidney donation is morally justified. Despite the excellent outcomes of LDKT, unspecified kidney donation (UKD) is limited to a minority of European countries due to legal constraints and moral objections. Consequently, there are significant variations in practice and approach between countries and the contribution of UKD is undervalued. Where UKD is accepted as routine, an increasing number of patients in the kidney exchange programme are successfully transplanted when a 'chain' of transplants is triggered by a single unspecified donor. By expanding the shared living donor pool, the benefit of LDKT is extended to patients who do not have their own living donor because a recipient on the national transplant list always completes the chain. Is there a moral imperative to increase the scope of UKD and how could this be achieved?
methodsAn examination of the literature and individual country practices was performed to identify the limitations on UKD in Europe and recommend strategies to increase transplant opportunities.
resultsPrimary limitations to UKD, key players and their roles and responsibilities were identified.
conclusionsRaising awareness to encourage the public to volunteer to donate is appropriate and desirable to increase UKD. Recommendations are made to provide a framework for increasing awareness and engagement in UKD. The public, healthcare professionals, policy makers and society and religious leaders have a role to play in creating an environment for change.
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