Selection and Postoperative Care of the Living Donor.
Live organ donors typically consult their primary care providers when considering live donation and then return for follow-up after surgery and for ongoing primary care. Live liver and kidney transplants are performed routinely as a method to shorten the waiting time for a recipient, provide a healthy organ for transplant, and increase recipient survival. Careful medical and psychosocial evaluation of the potential donor is imperative to minimize harm. This evaluation must be performed by an experienced live donor medical team. Routine health care with careful attention to weight maintenance, cardiovascular health, and prevention of diabetes and hypertension is paramount.
Recanati Miller Transplantation Institute, Mount Sinai Hospital, 1425 Madison Avenue, Box 1105, New York, NY 10029, USA.
Dianne
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LaPointe Rudow
Division of Renal, Electrolyte and Hypertension, Penn Transplant Institute, Perelman School of Medicine, University of Pennsylvania, 1 Founders, Renal Division, 3400 Spruce Street, Philadelphia, PA 19104, USA. Electronic address: karen.warburton@uphs.upenn.edu.
Karen M
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Warburton
D003299:Cooperative Behavior; D046148:Donor Selection; D005500:Follow-Up Studies; D006801:Humans; D033183:Interdisciplinary Communication; D016030:Kidney Transplantation; D016031:Liver Transplantation; D019520:Living Donors; D011182:Postoperative Care / Q000379:methods*; D011183:Postoperative Complications / Q000175:diagnosis* / Q000517:prevention & control*; D012307:Risk Factors
Evaluation; Follow-up; Kidney; Live donor; Liver; Outcomes