Assessment of Postdonation Outcomes in US Living Kidney Donors Using Publicly Available Data Sets.

ABSTRACT:

Importance

There are limited resources providing postdonation conditions that can occur in living donors (LDs) of solid-organ transplant. Consequently, it is difficult to visualize and understand possible postdonation outcomes in LDs.

Objective

To assemble an open access resource that is representative of the demographic characteristics in the US national registry, maintained by the Organ Procurement and Transplantation Network and administered by the United Network for Organ Sharing, but contains more follow-up information to help to examine postdonation outcomes in LDs.

Design, setting, and participants

Cohort study in which the data for the resource and analyses stemmed from the transplant data set derived from 27 clinical studies from the ImmPort database, which i

SUBMITTER: Chen J 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC6481454 | biostudies-literature | 2019 Apr

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature