Authors
Dorry L Segev, Abimereki D Muzaale, Brian S Caffo, Shruti H Mehta, Andrew L Singer, Sarah E Taranto, Maureen A McBride, Robert A Montgomery
Publication date
2010/3/10
Journal
Jama
Volume
303
Issue
10
Pages
959-966
Publisher
American Medical Association
Description
Context
More than 6000 healthy US individuals every year undergo nephrectomy for the purposes of live donation; however, safety remains in question because longitudinal outcome studies have occurred at single centers with limited generalizability.
Objectives
To study national trends in live kidney donor selection and outcome, to estimate short-term operative risk in various strata of live donors, and to compare long-term death rates with a matched cohort of nondonors who are as similar to the donor cohort as possible and as free as possible from contraindications to live donation.
Design, Setting, and Participants
Live donors were drawn from a mandated national registry of 80 347 live kidney donors in the United States between April 1, 1994, and March 31, 2009. Median (interquartile range) follow-up was 6.3 (3.2-9.8) years. A matched cohort was drawn from 9364 participants of the third National Health and …
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