Acute dialysis risk in living kidney donors

It is crucial to carefully screen donors and essential to resist compromises. If this is respected the survival, the co-morbidity, ESRD or even acute renal failure, as shown by Lam et al. in the current issue of this journal, appear to be similar to those in the general population.

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