TY - JOUR T1 - Recommendations for living donor kidney transplantation JO - Nefrología T2 - AU - Frutos,Miguel Ángel AU - Crespo,Marta AU - Valentín,María de la Oliva AU - Alonso-Melgar,Ángel AU - Alonso,Juana AU - Fernández,Constantino AU - García-Erauzkin,Gorka AU - González,Esther AU - González–Rinne,Ana M. AU - Guirado,Lluis AU - Gutiérrez-Dalmau,Alex AU - Huguet,Jorge AU - Moral,José Luis López del AU - Musquera,Mireia AU - Paredes,David AU - Redondo,Dolores AU - Revuelta,Ignacio AU - Hofstadt,Carlos J Van-der AU - Alcaraz,Antonio AU - Alonso-Hernández,Ángel AU - Alonso,Manuel AU - Bernabeu,Purificación AU - Bernal,Gabriel AU - Breda,Alberto AU - Cabello,Mercedes AU - Caro-Oleas,José Luis AU - Cid,Joan AU - Diekmann,Fritz AU - Espinosa,Laura AU - Facundo,Carme AU - García,Marta AU - Gil-Vernet,Salvador AU - Lozano,Miquel AU - Mahillo,Beatriz AU - Martínez,María José AU - Miranda,Blanca AU - Oppenheimer,Federico AU - Palou,Eduard AU - Pérez-Saez,María José AU - Peri,Lluis AU - Rodríguez,Oscar AU - Santiago,Carlos AU - Tabernero,Guadalupe AU - Hernández,Domingo AU - Domínguez-Gil,Beatriz AU - Pascual,Julio SN - 20132514 M3 - 10.1016/j.nefroe.2022.07.001 DO - 10.1016/j.nefroe.2022.07.001 UR - https://www.revistanefrologia.com/en-recommendations-for-living-donor-kidney-articulo-S2013251422000797 AB - This Guide for Living Donor Kidney Transplantation (LDKT) has been prepared with the sponsorship of the Spanish Society of Nephrology (SEN), the Spanish Transplant Society (SET), and the Spanish National Transplant Organization (ONT). It updates evidence to offer the best chronic renal failure treatment when a potential living donor is available. The core aim of this Guide is to supply clinicians who evaluate living donors and transplant recipients with the best decision-making tools, to optimise their outcomes.Moreover, the role of living donors in the current KT context should recover the level of importance it had until recently. To this end the new forms of incompatible HLA and/or ABO donation, as well as the paired donation which is possible in several hospitals with experience in LDKT, offer additional ways to treat renal patients with an incompatible donor.Good results in terms of patient and graft survival have expanded the range of circumstances under which living renal donors are accepted. Older donors are now accepted, as are others with factors that affect the decision, such as a borderline clinical history or alterations, which when evaluated may lead to an additional number of transplantations.This Guide does not forget that LDKT may lead to risk for the donor. Pre-donation evaluation has to centre on the problems which may arise over the short or long-term, and these have to be described to the potential donor so that they are able take them into account. Experience over recent years has led to progress in risk analysis, to protect donors’ health. This aspect always has to be taken into account by LDKT programmes when evaluating potential donors.Finally, this Guide has been designed to aid decision-making, with recommendations and suggestions when uncertainties arise in pre-donation studies. Its overarching aim is to ensure that informed consent is based on high quality studies and information supplied to donors and recipients, offering the strongest possible guarantees. ER -