About this ebook
This book provides a complete guide to the evaluation, care, and follow-up of living kidney donors. Living donor kidney transplantation is established as the best treatment option for kidney failure. However, despite the tremendous benefits of living donation to recipients and society, the outcomes and optimal care of donors themselves have received relatively less attention. Fortunately, things are changing – including recent landmark developments in living donor risk assessment, policy and guidance.
This volume offers authoritative, evidence-based guidance on the full range of clinical scenarios encountered in the evaluation and care of living kidney donors. The approach to key elements of risk assessment, ethical considerations and informed consent is accompanied by recommendations for patient-centered care before, during, and after donation. Advocacy initiatives and policies to remove disincentives to donation and advance a defensible system of practice are also discussed.
General and transplant nephrologists, as well as related allied health professionals, can look to this book as a comprehensive resource addressing contemporary clinical topics in the practice of living kidney donation.
About the author
Beatrice P. Concepcion, MDAssistant Professor of MedicineDepartment of MedicineDivision of Nephrology and HypertensionVanderbilt University Medical CenterNashville, TN, USA
Edgar V. Lerma, MD Clinical Professor of MedicineDepartment of MedicineSection of NephrologyDepartment of MedicineUniversity of Illinois at Chicago College of Medicine/ Associates in Nephrology, S.C.Chicago, IL, USA
