Pre-emptive living donor kidney transplantation: A public health justification to change the default

Isaac Kim; Umberto Maggiore; Simon R Knight; Reshma Rana Magar; Liset H M Pengel; Frank J M F Dor

doi:10.3389/fpubh.2023.1124453

Pre-emptive living donor kidney transplantation: A public health justification to change the default

Front Public Health. 2023 Mar 17:11:1124453. doi: 10.3389/fpubh.2023.1124453. eCollection 2023.

Authors

Isaac Kim¹, Umberto Maggiore², Simon R Knight³, Reshma Rana Magar³, Liset H M Pengel³, Frank J M F Dor^{1

4}

Affiliations

¹ Imperial College Renal and Transplant Centre, Hammersmith Hospital, Imperial College Healthcare NHS Trust, London, United Kingdom.
² Dipartimento di Medicina e Chirurgia, Università di Parma, Unità Operativa Nefrologia, Azienda Ospedaliera-Universitaria Parma, Parma, Italy.
³ Sir Peter Morris Centre for Evidence in Transplantation, Nuffield Department of Surgical Sciences, University of Oxford, Oxford, United Kingdom.
⁴ Department of Surgery and Cancer, Imperial College London, London, United Kingdom.

No abstract available

Keywords: dialysis; end-stage kidney disease (ESKD); evidence based healthcare; kidney replacement therapy (KRT); kidney transplantation; living donor; pre-emptive; public health.

MeSH terms

Humans
Kidney
Kidney Failure, Chronic*
Kidney Transplantation*
Living Donors
Public Health