Journal article
Perioperative Complications After Living Kidney Donation: A National Study
Abstract
We integrated the US transplant registry with administrative records from an academic hospital consortium (97 centers, 2008-2012) to identify predonation comorbidity and perioperative complications captured in diagnostic, procedure, and registry sources. Correlates (adjusted odds ratio, aOR) of perioperative complications were examined with multivariate logistic regression. Among 14 964 living kidney donors, 11.6% were African American. …
Authors
Lentine KL; Lam NN; Axelrod D; Schnitzler MA; Garg AX; Xiao H; Dzebisashvili N; Schold JD; Brennan DC; Randall H
Journal
American Journal of Transplantation, Vol. 16, No. 6, pp. 1848–1857
Publisher
Elsevier
Publication Date
June 2016
DOI
10.1111/ajt.13687
ISSN
1600-6135