An observational study of voluntary live kidney donors-post transplant in tertiary care centre from South India
Journal Title: Medpulse International Journal of Medicine - Year 2019, Vol 10, Issue 1
Abstract
Kidney transplantation is best choice in the treatment of chronic kidney disease (CKD).An observational study was conductedat Thanjavur Medical College Hospital to study impact of renal donation by assessing systemic disease, renal function and their psychosocial functioning in the donors.50 live kidney donors were enrolled and females (78%) were the single major group of donors. Female donors had a mean age (24 years) at donation less than the males. The prevalence of hypertension and Diabetes mellitus (20%) among the donors was similar to the population based studies. None of the donors had proteinuria. Only one donor had elevation of urea and creatinine. The mean time taken by the donors to return to normal life was 4.08 weeks. All the donors had a positive attitude towards donation.
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S Manoharan, B Lalith Narayan, M Natesh Prabhu
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