The risk of living kidney donation

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Abstract
Living kidney donation has become an established part of the transplant programmes in most centres worldwide. It has indeed been an important part of our transplant programme for >30 years, comprising some 40% of all kidney transplantations in Norway [1]. However, the risk of unilateral nephrectomy should not be neglected. Here we review data on mortality, morbidity and psychosocial outcome after live kidney donation, both short‐ and long‐term. In the survey we will particularly focus our own experience with almost 1800 living kidney donors including some data from our recently established living donor registry (Norwegian National Hospitals Donor Registry, established 1997).