Thirty-Year Trends in Perioperative Mortality Risk for Living Kidney Donors

JAMA. 2024 Sep 24;332(12):1015-1017. doi: 10.1001/jama.2024.14527.
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Plain language summary

This study uses a national registry study to characterize temporal trends in perioperative mortality in donors and risk factors associated with this event.

Publication types

  • Research Support, N.I.H., Extramural

MeSH terms

  • Adult
  • Female
  • Humans
  • Kidney Transplantation* / methods
  • Kidney Transplantation* / statistics & numerical data
  • Laparoscopy / methods
  • Laparoscopy / mortality
  • Living Donors* / statistics & numerical data
  • Male
  • Middle Aged
  • Nephrectomy / methods
  • Nephrectomy / mortality
  • Perioperative Period* / mortality
  • Perioperative Period* / trends
  • Risk
  • Risk Assessment
  • Tissue and Organ Harvesting* / methods
  • Tissue and Organ Harvesting* / mortality
  • United States / epidemiology