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Abstract
The best treatment option for many patients with kidney failure is a kidney transplant from a living donor. Countries that successfully increase their rate of living kidney donation will decrease their reliance on dialysis, the most expensive and high-risk form of kidney replacement therapy. Outlined here are some barriers that prevent some patients from pursuing living kidney donation and current knowledge on some potential solutions to these barriers. Also described are strategies to promote living kidney donation in a defensible system of practice. Safely increasing the rate of living kidney donation will require better programs and policies to improve the experiences of living donors and their recipients, to safeguard the practice for years to come.
- Living Donors
- kidney transplantation
- renal dialysis
- Renal Insufficiency
- Tissue and Organ Harvesting
- Renal Replacement Therapy
- kidney
- Copyright © 2018 by the American Society of Nephrology
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