The Impact of Donor Type and Quality on Renal Transplant Outcomes

Nguyen, Huong Van; Yong, Kenneth; Croke, Rebecca; Lim, Wai H.

doi:10.5772/16790

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“…In fact, living donor kidney transplantation provides a better patient and allograft outcome when compared to deceased donor kidney transplantation. 30,31 Therefore, our results might be due to a better graft function providing better cognitive function in living donor patients. Previous studies showed weak correlations between increasing urea and creatinine levels and poorer performance on certain cognitive tests.…”

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Up to a Third of Renal Transplant Recipients Have Deficiencies in Cognitive Functioning

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Altough cognitive performance in renal transplant recipients matches normative data and confirms former findings, the amount of patients scoring more than 1 SD below average suggests that there are a considerable number of patients whose cognitive performance in certain domains lies below those of the general population. The identified sociodemographic and biochemical factors might be helpful to identify renal transplant recipients at risk.

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