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Summary of Kidney Disease
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Summary of Kidney Disease

Abstract

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 …

Authors

Lentine KL; Kasiske BL; Levey AS; Adams PL; Alberú J; Bakr MA; Gallon L; Garvey CA; Guleria S; Li PK-T

Journal

Transplantation, Vol. 101, No. 8, pp. 1783–1792

Publisher

Wolters Kluwer

Publication Date

August 2017

DOI

10.1097/tp.0000000000001770

ISSN

0041-1337