Obese uremic patients might be the next wave of patients that nephrologists will face. A recent editorial in NDT highlights this epidemic th...

How do most kidney donor's do long term? Studies have shown that donors actually do better than normal population.   Certain risks   h...

B esides causing many other problems, obesity is leading to  organ shortage as well. A study presented at NKF 2012 showed  that a large...

The most recent CDC recs for the prevention and screening of HIV infection in potential living donors are as follows: 1. Initial screening...

How do we tell a recipient that they are at high risk for a transmissible infectious disease when they are accepting a CDC high Risk Kidney?...

What is the optimal testing strategy for testing live donors? In a lecture given by Dr. Michael Ison, we can see that this is an area of g...

From Dr. Segev's well put lecture: Perhaps we can stratify Kidney transplant donors into "higher risk" groups. This group ca...

A recent review in Nature Nephrology discuses this important concept.  A large study out of Finland is discussed in this review and how the ...

Organ allocation system always has been going down the list on a first come first basis. A discussion has been ongoing in the transplant cir...

What are the risks of getting cancer from the donor? Check out this report from UK regarding a recent case. http://www.guardian.co.uk/societ...

Which of these statements is TRUE regarding living donor related transplantation in Fabry's Disease? Renal Transplantation from a hetero...

A recent article in Nature Review Nephrology reviews the diseases we always get worried if a living donor can be used. This review outlines ...

http://nephrohug.com/2010/08/16/greffe-des-deux-reins/ Check out the above French Blog on this topic from Nephrohug.

We have asked this question many times in conferences and especially when a pediatric kidney gets put in an adult recipient? Does it matter ...

Donating a kidney is a very noble thought.  We usually screen for hematuria in the donors.  Aysmptomatic hematuria is 13% in general populat...

The Economist is holding a live debate on Organ trading on Facebook. Check it out with this link   On facebook . Also, the Renal Fellow Netw...

Donor nephrectomies are being done in some patients via a different approach at John Hopkins.  A case report was done for a patient presente...

http://nephrologyworld.blogspot.com/2010/05/size-does-matter-for-renal-transplant.html

A recent paper in JAMA suggests that living donors live normal lives and have good long term survival. Live donors were drawn from a regist...

What is a CDC high risk donor? A recent article in AJT Feb 2010 issue talked about a study that wanted to see how centers of disease control...