Where do kidneys for transplantation come from?
There are three sources of kidneys for transplantation: living related, living unrelated, and cadaver donors. Living donors are usually members of the recipient’s immediate family, such as siblings, parents or children. Only such close relatives are likely to have an acceptable tissue match, although recent data suggests that success with living unrelated kidneys is closer to that of related grafts than that of cadavers. This may be due to better state of the donor and less storage time. Cadaver donor kidneys are removed from victims of brain death, usually the result of an accident or a stroke.
There are three sources of kidneys for transplantation: living related, living unrelated, and cadaver donors. Living donors are usually members of the recipient’s immediate family, such as siblings, parents or children. Only such close relatives are likely to have an acceptable tissue match, although recent data suggests that success with living unrelated kidneys is closer to recent data suggests that success with living unrelated kidneys is closer to that of related grafts than that of cadavers. This may be due to better state of the donor and less storage time. Cadaver donor kidneys are removed from victims of brain death, usually the result of an accident or a stroke.
