Fortuitous Benefits of Living Kidney Donation: Diagnosis of serious medical conditions during the living donor evaluation

ConclusionsThe evaluation process can diagnose serious medical conditions in a significant minority of donors that would have otherwise been unrecognized. The benefit associated with the donor evaluation should be considered an important part of the consent process.This article is protected by copyright. All rights reserved.

Source: Clinical Transplantation - January 18, 2018 Category: Transplant Surgery Authors: Arika Hoffman, Ketki Tendulkar, Shaheed Merani, Alexander Maskin, Alan Langnas Tags: Brief Communication Source Type: research