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Summary of Kidney Disease

2017; Wolters Kluwer; Volume: 101; Issue: 8 Linguagem: Inglês

10.1097/tp.0000000000001770

1534-6080

Krista L. Lentine, Bertram L. Kasiske, Andrew S. Levey, Patricia L. Adams, Josefina Alberú, Mohamed A. Bakr, Lorenzo Gallon, Catherine Garvey, Sandeep Guleria, Philip Kam‐Tao Li, Dorry L. Segev, Sandra J. Taler, Kazunari Tanabe, Linda Wright, Martin Zeier, Michael Cheung, Amit X. Garg,

Organ Transplantation Techniques and Outcomes

In Brief Kidney Disease: Improving Global Outcomes (KDIGO) engaged an evidence review team and convened a work group to produce a guideline to evaluate and manage candidates for living kidney donation. The evidence for most guideline recommendations is sparse and many “ungraded” expert consensus recommendations were made to guide the donor candidate evaluation and care before, during, and after donation. The guideline advocates for replacing decisions based on assessments of single risk factors in isolation with a comprehensive approach to risk assessment using the best available evidence. The approach to simultaneous consideration of each candidate’s profile of demographic and health characteristics advances a new framework for assessing donor candidate risk and for defensible shared decision making. One of the most important tasks we have to undertake is to evaluate and then care for living donors. This paper provides a summary of the KDIGO Guidelines and encapsulates what you will find in the guidelines themselves, which are published in full in a separate supplement. Care of our living kidney donors is not an evidence free void for personal opinion and practice to fill–there are data.