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Heart Risk in Folks Approved to be Living Kidney Donors

A 10% reduction in kidney function has been shown to significantly increase an individual’s risk for cardiovascular disease and deaths. Living kidney donors lose 20-40% of their pre-donation kidney...

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Kidney Donors Exhibit Symptoms of Mild Chronic Kidney Disease

This is timely considering a commenter recenter asserted there is ‘no proof’ that living with one kidney is different than two.   A comparison of 203 kidney donors and 201 two-kidneyed individuals who...

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Kidney Donors Exhibit Biomarkers of Cardiovascular Risk

Six-months post-donation:   Among the panel of markers, the levels of symmetric dimethylarginine and fibroblast growth factor 23 increased significantly compared to baseline, suggesting that living...

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Heart and Kidney Disease Risk for Living Kidney Donors

You might remember Mjoen from his prior paper wherein he concluded that after the age of 60, living kidney donors began dying off at a much faster rate than their well-matched, two-kidneyed cohorts....

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Hyperfiltration: Adaptive or Maladaptive

Hyperfiltration is the term used to describe the changes in the remaining kidney after a nephrectomy (kidney removal).   As detailed here, it means that the vessels in the kidney widen under the...

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Losing a Whole Kidney vs. Part of One Matters

I’ll let the authors begin:    It is clear  that Chronic Kidney Disease  (GFR <60mls/min) is associated with reduced  life  expectancy,  partly  due  to  an  increased  risk  of  cardiovascular...

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Heart Changes One Year Post-Kidney Donation

Unfortunately, I can’t get access to the entire article ($$$) so this is from the abstract. 38 living kidney donors were included in the study.   “The mean serum interleukin-6 levels, both at 3 months...

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American Society of Transplant Surgeons Winter Symposium 2015 Abstracts

Read ’em all here folks: http://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/ajt.13164/pdf   Long-Term Living Donor Outcomes: When To Say No Dorry Segev (Pg. 43). “The risks of donation are real. And serious....

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Cardiovascular Changes Shown in Living Kidney Donors

It’s well established that a reduction in kidney function (GFR) significantly increases one’s risk of cardiovascular disease and death. It’s all known that folks in all stages of chronic kidney disease...

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Anemia and Kidney Function

A living kidney donor recently asked me if there was a connection between kidney donation and anemia. Because I’m not a walking encyclopedia, I put my google-fu to work and learned a lot along the way....

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