Donor Smoking Negatively Affects Donor and Recipient Renal Function following Living Donor Nephrectomy

Background. While tobacco use by a renal transplant recipient has been shown to negatively affect graft and patient survival, the effect of smoking on the part of the kidney donor remains unknown. Methods. 29 smoking donors (SD) and their recipients (SD-R) as well as 71 non-smoking donors (ND) and t...

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Published in:	Advances in Urology
Main Authors:	Jonathan Heldt, Robert Torrey, Daniel Han, Pedro Baron, Christopher Tenggardjaja, Justin McLarty, Tekisha Lindler, D. Duane Baldwin
Format:	Article
Language:	English
Published:	Wiley 2011-01-01
Online Access:	http://dx.doi.org/10.1155/2011/929263