Metabolic Syndrome and Living Kidney Donors
The US transplant industry have been expanding the criteria for what they deem are ‘acceptable’ living donors. This means that living donors have gotten older, fatter (higher BMI) and with more...
View ArticleHeart 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...
View ArticleKidney 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...
View ArticleKidney 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....
View ArticleHyperfiltration: 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...
View ArticleLosing 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...
View ArticleHeart 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...
View ArticleAmerican 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....
View ArticleCardiovascular 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...
View ArticleAnemia 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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