TY  - JOUR
T1  - PErioperative mortality and long-term survival in live kidney donors
AU  - Bowman J
Y1  - 2010/06/09
N1  - 10.1001/jama.2010.729
JO  - JAMA
SP  - 2248
EP  - 2250
VL  - 303
IS  - 22
N2  - 
This study confirms that living kidney donors during 1994 to 2009 had a normal life span (on average) when followed up for 1 to 15 years. Since chronic kidney failure is usually insidious in onset over a long period of time and silent without obvious signs and symptoms, I believe that the follow-up period needs to be extended to 20 years or longer to reassure younger kidney donors who expect to live another 30 or 40 years with only 1 kidney.

SN  - 0098-7484
M3  - doi: 10.1001/jama.2010.729
UR  - http://dx.doi.org/10.1001/jama.2010.729
ER  -