Living donor kidney transplantation in Catalonia:: Comparison with cadaveric kidney donors

Introduction. We studied the renal transplantation results of living donor compared with cadaveric donor kidney transplantations. Patients and Methods. One hundred thirty-six living donor transplantations performed during, the period of 1990 to 2003 (group 1) were compared with a control group of 4304 cadaveric donor transplantations (group 2), paired 1:1. with group I patients, according to the period of transplantation, the primary renal disease, the transplant number, as well as the recipient and donor ages. Results. There were no differences regarding patient or graft survival during a 10-year follow-up. Conclusions. The benefit of performing living donor kidney transplantations is the possibility of having the donor available even before beginning dialysis treatment.