Is obesity a contraindication for kidney donation

Lilli Schussler,Prerna Khetan,Matthew Peacock,Elisha Dickstein,Dianne LaPointe‐Rudow,Michael Palese,Antonios Arvelakis,Daniel M. Herron,Ron Shapiro,Sander Florman,Edward H. Chin

Is obesity a contraindication for kidney donation

2019

Lilli Schussler
Prerna Khetan
Matthew Peacock
Elisha Dickstein
Dianne LaPointe‐Rudow
Michael Palese
Antonios Arvelakis
Daniel M. Herron
Ron Shapiro
Sander Florman
Edward H. Chin

Introduction To enlarge the donor pool, kidney donors with obesity have been considered. We hypothesized that it is safe for patients with obesity to serve as living kidney donors.

Keywords:

Creatinine
Kidney
Transplantation
Kidney donation
Surgery
Obesity
Contraindication
Medicine
Renal function
donor pool

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