title: Pathologies in Living Kidney Donors Diagnosed in the Long-Term Care System.
abstract: Kidney donation should not lead to deterioration of the donor's health condition, both during the perisurgical period and in the long term. Safety of a living kidney donor becomes a prerequisite for his/her qualification. Detailed diagnostic procedures are performed to exclude any abnormalities of his/her health condition. Additionally, a long-term post-donation follow-up system for kidney donors has been set up in Poland besides the restrictive qualification system. Transplantation centers are obligated to provide a diagnostic procedures for living organ donors as a part of the monitoring of their health condition and to ensure them a medical follow-up for 10 years after the donation. A total of 141 cases of unilateral nephroureterectomy performed in 2003-2014 to obtain a kidney for transplantation were considered. Medical files of post-donation diagnostic or therapeutic methods and their outcomes were retrospectively analyzed. The aim of the study was to assess the efficacy of monitoring of donors' health condition within the framework of the long-term follow-up system for kidney donors in the aspect of detection of the donation-independent abnormalities.
authors: Department of General and Transplantation Surgery, Medical University of Warsaw, Warsaw, Poland.
authors: M
authors: M
authors: Kwapisz
authors: Department of General and Transplantation Surgery, Medical University of Warsaw, Warsaw, Poland. Electronic address: rafal.kieszek@gmail.com.
authors: R
authors: R
authors: Kieszek
authors: Department of General and Transplantation Surgery, Medical University of Warsaw, Warsaw, Poland.
authors: K
authors: K
authors: Jędrzejko
authors: Department of General and Transplantation Surgery, Medical University of Warsaw, Warsaw, Poland.
authors: P
authors: P
authors: Domagała
authors: Department of General and Transplantation Surgery, Medical University of Warsaw, Warsaw, Poland.
authors: M
authors: M
authors: Bieniasz
authors: Department of Transplantation Medicine and Nephrology, Medical University of Warsaw, Warsaw, Poland.
authors: J
authors: J
authors: Gozdowska
authors: Department of Immunology, Transplantation, and Internal Medicine, Medical University of Warsaw, Warsaw, Poland.
authors: D
authors: D
authors: Zygier
authors: Department of General and Transplantation Surgery, Medical University of Warsaw, Warsaw, Poland.
authors: J
authors: J
authors: Drozdowski
authors: Faculty of Psychology, University of Social Sciences and Humanities, Warsaw, Poland.
authors: M
authors: M
authors: Zatorski
authors: Department of Clinical Immunology, Medical University of Warsaw, Warsaw, Poland.
authors: M
authors: M
authors: Nowaczyk
authors: I Department of Clinical Radiology, Medical University of Warsaw, Warsaw, Poland.
authors: P
authors: P
authors: Palczewski
authors: Department of Immunology, Transplantation, and Internal Medicine, Medical University of Warsaw, Warsaw, Poland.
authors: L
authors: L
authors: Pączek
authors: Department of Immunology, Transplantation, and Internal Medicine, Medical University of Warsaw, Warsaw, Poland.
authors: M
authors: M
authors: Durlik
authors: Department of General and Transplantation Surgery, Medical University of Warsaw, Warsaw, Poland.
authors: A
authors: A
authors: Chmura
authors: Department of General and Transplantation Surgery, Medical University of Warsaw, Warsaw, Poland.
authors: A
authors: A
authors: Kwiatkowski
mesh_terms: D000328:Adult; D000359:Aftercare / Q000379:methods*; D000368:Aged; D005260:Female; D006801:Humans; D016030:Kidney Transplantation; D019520:Living Donors; D008134:Long-Term Care / Q000379:methods; D008297:Male; D008875:Middle Aged; D009392:Nephrectomy / Q000009:adverse effects* / Q000379:methods; D011044:Poland; D012189:Retrospective Studies; D020858:Tissue and Organ Harvesting / Q000009:adverse effects* / Q000379:methods