Older kidney donors with hypertension may have good kidney health following donation
Friday, December 19, 2014 - 17:30
in Health & Medicine
Kidney donors with hypertension had slightly fewer nephrons (the kidney’s filtering units) at the time of donation than similarly aged donors with normal blood pressure; however, 6 months following their surgery, hypertensive and non-hypertensive donors both maintained excellent blood pressure control and had similarly robust compensatory kidney responses.