Criteria that may exclude you from the group of donors in family transplantation are divided into absolute and relative. Find out when you cannot become a living kidney donor. What diseases make it impossible to donate a kidney to someone in need?
Althoughfamily transplantis in many cases the best solution to the patient's problems, not every potentialdonorcan become a living kidney donor. What are the criteria for becoming a living kidney donor?
When you can't donate a kidney? Absolute criteria
- mental retardation, making it impossible to make an informed decision about kidney donation
- unsuccessfully treated mental illness
- addiction to stimulants (alcohol, tobacco, drugs)
- symptoms of kidney disease (increased creatinine, decreased GFR - glomerular filtration, proteinuria, unexplained hematuria and pyuria)
- significant anatomical anomalies of the kidneys
- recurrent kidney stones or bilateral kidney stones
- systemic vascular diseases
- diabetes
- hypertension
- a history of myocardial infarction or coronary artery disease during treatment
- moderate to severe lung disease
- tumor presence (except in situ carcinoma of the skin, cervix and colon)
- diagnosis of a malignant neoplasm in the past (lungs, breasts, urinary system, melanoma, gastrointestinal tract, hematopoietic system)
- positive family history of renal cell carcinoma
- infections
- chronic viral infection (e.g. hepatitis B and / or C, HIV, HTLV - human T-lymphocytotropic virus)
- chronic liver disease
- more serious neurological diseases
- chronic diseases requiring anticoagulant treatment
- pregnancy
When you can't donate a kidney? Relative criteria
- blood major mismatch (AB0)
- under 18 and over 65
- obesity, especially when BMI>35 - calculate your BMI with the calculator
- moderate or easily treatable hypertension
- an earlier, one-time episode of kidney stones
- slight urinary tract abnormalities
- young donor with more than one first degree relative with family history of diabetes or kidney disease
- gestational diabetes in interviews
- smoking
- Jehovah's Witness