The live kidney donor: Do we now understand the risks better.

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Grams ME, Sang Y, Levey AS, Matsushita K, Ballew S, Chang AR, Chow EK, Kasiske BL, Kovesdy CP, Nadkarni GN, Shalev V, Segev DL, Coresh J, Lentine KL, Garg AX; Chronic Kidney Disease Prognosis Consortium. (Division of Nephrology, Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine, Department of Epidemiology, Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health, and the Departments of Surgery and Epidemiology, Johns Hopkins University, Baltimore; Division of Nephrology, Tufts Medical Center, Boston; Division of Nephrology, Geisinger Medical Center, Danville, Pennsylvania; Department of Medicine, Hennepin County Medical Center, University of Minnesota, Minneapolis; Memphis Veterans Affairs Medical Center and University of Tennessee Health Science Center, Memphis; Division of Nephrology, Department of Medicine, Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai, New York, USA; Medical Division, Maccabi Healthcare Services and Sackler Faculty of Medicine, Tel Aviv University, Tel Aviv, Israel; Centers for Abdominal Transplantation and Outcomes Research, Saint Louis University, St Louis; Departments of Medicine and Epidemiology and Biostatistics, Western University, and the Institute for Clinical Evaluative Sciences, London, Ontario, Canada). Kidney-failure risk projection for the living kidney-donor candidate. N Engl J Med 2016;374411–21.