Does the low birth weight have an impact on living kidney donor outcomes?

Since nearly 30000 people worldwide become a live kidney donor each year, donor safety is of the utmost importance. Recent papers indicate that living kidney donation is associated with an increased relative risk for ESRD. It is essential to determine which donor will be more likely to develop ESRD. One of the risk factors for ESRD in live kidney donors is hypertension and as there are studies demonstrating that a low-birth weight is a risk factor for developing hypertension in adult life, we hypothesized that donors with low-birth weight may be at higher risk of developing renal disease after donation.

Source: Transplantation Proceedings - April 12, 2018 Category: Transplant Surgery Authors: Kalina J ędrzejko, Rafał Kieszek, Frank JMF. Dor, Magdalena Kwapisz, Magdalena Nita, Monika Bieniasz, Magdalena Czerwińska, Artur Kwiatkowski Source Type: research