living related kidney doner findings, results and effects

ABSTRACT

One hundred kidney donors over the legal of 18 years [622 males and 38 females] were reviewed. The left kidney was chosen in 65 donors and the right in 35 preferring the kidney with a single artery [as it was in 78 donors]. The hot ischemic time ranged from six and a half to fourteen and a half minute and the cold ischemic time ranged from 95 to 195 minutes. The morbidity included pleural injury [4 patients] and jaundice [1 patient]. Only 82 donors appeared for follow up in a period raging from 3 months to 10 years after the operation. There was no signifidant hypertension. Eleven out of thirty-eight female patients had one or multiple pregnancies and all donors returned to their original work or activities, there was no mortality. The results of donor nephrectomy are encouraging and until cadaveric kidneys become available in our country we need to continue using living related donors with good selection preoperative and postoperative care