Red Flags in the Living Kidney Donor Process.

Background: Ideally, no live kidney donor should regret their decision or feel they were not fully prepared for the process. Unfortunately, this is not a reality for all donors. The aim of our study is to identify areas for improvement, focusing on factors (red flags) that predict less favorable outcomes from a donor perspective.

Potential living kidney donors' positive experiences of an information letter from healthcare: a descriptive qualitative study.

Background: Patients who need a live donor kidney transplant (LDKT) must often ask potential donors (PLDs) themselves. This is a difficult task and healthcare could unburden them by making this first contact, ensuring also that PLDs receive correct information. We investigated how PLDs experience receiving a letter from healthcare about LDKT, live kidney donation, and inviting them to meet with professionals to get more information.

The kidney recipient's path to transplantation: a comparison between living and deceased kidney donor recipients in Stockholm, Sweden.

Background: Much remains to be done to facilitate the transplantation process for patients with end-stage renal disease. The aim here was to explore these patients' experiences of the donation process and factors related to whether the actual donors of the recipients were living or deceased and describe which issues needed attention in a quality development project.

Method: A specially constructed questionnaire was sent to 246 recipients of living and deceased kidney transplants who had been transplanted at the Karolinska University Hospital in Stockholm, Sweden.

T-cell subsets in adenoids and peripheral blood related to age, otitis media with effusion and allergy.

Adenoids and peripheral blood samples from 29 children (20-120 months of age) undergoing adenoidectomy for long-standing otitis media with effusion (OME) (n=16) or obstructive adenoid hyperplasia (n=13) were investigated by flow cytometry for their T-lymphocyte profile. Eleven of the enrolled children were allergic to inhalant and/or food allergens. For the whole group, the percentage of helper T cells belonging to the memory phenotype (CD4+/CD45RO+ cells) was significantly higher in adenoids than in blood (p<0.