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Mid- and Long-Term Health Risks in Living Kidney Donors

Geir Mjoen, MD, PhD; Hallvard Holdaas, MD, PhD

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O'Keeffe and colleagues (1) performed several meta-analyses of important outcomes after kidney donation. Among these was an analysis of 4 studies on all-cause mortality among kidney donors, including a Canadian study by Garg and associates (2) that had a median follow-up of 6.5 years, a U.S. study by Segev and coworkers (3) that had a follow-up of 6.3 years, and a Norwegian study from our group (4) that had a median follow-up of 14 years. These 3 studies showed different results.
Garg and Segev and their respective colleagues found...
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Mjoen G, Holdaas H. Mid- and Long-Term Health Risks in Living Kidney Donors. Ann Intern Med. 2018;169:265. doi: https://doi.org/10.7326/L18-0340

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Published: Ann Intern Med. 2018;169(4):265.

DOI: 10.7326/L18-0340

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