Care of international living kidney donor candidates in the United States: A survey of contemporary experience, practice, and challenges.

Abstract:

:The evaluation and care of non-US citizen, non-US residents who wish to come to the United States to serve as international living kidney donors (ILKDs) can pose unique challenges. We surveyed US transplant programs to better understand practices related to ILKD care. We distributed the survey by email and professional society list-servs (Fall 2018, assessing 2017 experience). Eighty-five programs responded (36.8% program response rate), of which 80 considered ILKD candidates. Only 18 programs had written protocols for ILKD evaluation. Programs had a median of 3 (range: 0,75) ILKD candidates who initiated contact during the year, from origin countries spanning 6 continents. Fewer (median: 1, range: 0,25) were approved for donation. Program-reported reasons for not completing ILKD evaluations included visa barriers (58.6%), inability to complete evaluation (34.3%), concerns regarding follow-up (31.4%) or other healthcare access (28.6%), and financial impacts (21.4%). Programs that did not evaluate ILKDs reported similar concerns. Staff time required to evaluate ILKDs was estimated as 1.5-to-3-times (47.9%) or >3-times (32.9%) that needed for domestic candidates. Among programs accepting ILKDs, on average 55% reported successful completion of 1-year follow-up. ILKD evaluation is a resource-intensive process with variable outcomes. Planning and commitment are necessary to care for this unique candidate group.

journal_name

Clin Transplant

journal_title

Clinical transplantation

authors

Lentine KL,Motter JD,Henderson ML,Hays RE,Shukhman E,Hunt J,Al Ammary F,Kumar V,LaPointe Rudow D,Van Pilsum Rasmussen SE,Nishio-Lucar AG,Schaefer HM,Cooper M,Mandelbrot DA

doi

10.1111/ctr.14064

subject

Has Abstract

pub_date

2020-11-01 00:00:00

pages

e14064

issue

11

eissn

0902-0063

issn

1399-0012

journal_volume

34

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