Long-Term Outcomes for Living Kidney Donors With Early Guideline-Concordant Follow-up Care: A Retrospective Cohort Study.

ABSTRACT:

Background

Current guidelines recommend that living kidney donors receive lifelong annual follow-up care to monitor kidney health. In the United States, the reporting of complete clinical and laboratory data for kidney donors has been mandated for the first 2 years post-donation; however, the long-term impact of early guideline-concordant care remains unclear.

Objective

The primary objective of this study was to compare long-term post-donation follow-up care and clinical outcomes of living kidney donors with and without early guideline-concordant follow-up care.

Design

Retrospective, population-based cohort study.

Setting

Linked health care databases were used to identify kidney donors in Alberta, Canada.

Patients

Four hundred sixty living kidney donors

SUBMITTER: Dhalla A 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC9983079 | biostudies-literature | 2023

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature