Main description:

This book provides a guide to the principles and practice of living kidney donation. Concise and well-structured chapters discuss the ethics of living kidney donation, medical evaluation of kidney donors, donor nephrectomy surgery, and long-term outcomes of transplantation, along with broader medical issues related to cardiology, surgery, and anesthesia.

Living Kidney Donation: A Practical Guide aims to give readers the essential information required for undertaking living kidney donation and is relevant to nephrologists, transplant surgeons, and healthcare professionals working in renal transplantation.

Contents:

1. Introduction.- 2. Living donor activity.- 3. Ethics of living kidney donation.- 4. Regulatory governance of living kidney donation.- 5. Novel use of living kidney donors.- 6. Barriers to living kidney donation.- 7. Medical evaluation of potential living kidney donors.- 8. Surgical assessment of potential living kidney donors.- 9. High-risk living kidney donors.- 10. Contra-indications to living kidney donation.- 11. Donor nephrectomy surgery.- 12. Peri- and post-operative care of living kidney donors.- 13. Post-donation haemodynamic consequences.- 14. Long-term outcomes.- 15. Strategies to increase living kidney donation.- 16. Summary and concluding chapter.