title: The Outcomes of Living Kidney Donation from Medically Complex Donors: Implications for the Donor and the Recipient.
abstract: Living kidney donation is an important option for patients with end-stage renal disease (ESRD), and has improved life expectancy and quality for patients otherwise requiring maintenance dialysis or deceased-donor transplantation. Given the favorable outcomes of live donation and the shortage of organs to transplant, individuals with potentially unfavorable demographic and clinical characteristics are increasingly being permitted to donate kidneys. While this trend has successfully expanded the live donor pool, it has raised concerns as to which acceptance criteria are safe. This review aims to summarize the existing literature on the outcomes of transplantation from medically complex, living kidney donors, including both donor and recipient outcomes when available.
authors.affiliation: Division of Nephrology, Department of Medicine Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center 185 Pilgrim Road, Farr 8 Boston, MA 02215 mniemi@bidmc.harvard.edu.
authors.forename: Matthew
authors.initials: M
authors.lastname: Niemi
authors.affiliation: The Transplant Center Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center 110 Francis Street, LMOB 7 Boston, MA 02215.
authors.forename: Didier A
authors.initials: DA
authors.lastname: Mandelbrot
keywords: Donor; End-stage renal disease; Epidemiology; Kidney transplantation; Living donor; Living kidney donation; Medically complex donors; Outcomes; Recipient