Gender Disparity and the Relationship Between Living Donors and Recipients in Kidney Transplants in an Organ Transplant Center in Turkey
| Autor: | Mehmet Haberal, Ezgi Türkçelik, Ayşe Akın, Ebru H. Ayvazoglu Soy, Sare Mıhçıokur |
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| Rok vydání: | 2019 |
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Male medicine.medical_specialty Adolescent Turkey Organ transplantation Hospitals University Young Adult Age Distribution Internal medicine Living Donors Medicine Humans Young adult Healthcare Disparities Sex Distribution Child Gender disparity Aged Retrospective Studies Aged 80 and over Transplantation Kidney business.industry Significant difference Infant Newborn Infant Retrospective cohort study Health Status Disparities Middle Aged University hospital Kidney Transplantation Transplant Recipients medicine.anatomical_structure Donation Child Preschool Female business |
| Zdroj: | Experimental and clinical transplantation : official journal of the Middle East Society for Organ Transplantation. 17(Suppl 1) |
| ISSN: | 2146-8427 |
| Popis: | OBJECTIVES The literature search on kidney transplant procedures performed in Turkey showed that few publications are available about gender distribution and the relationships between living donors and recipients. Therefore, this study aimed to examine the gender distributions and the relationships between donors and recipients of living-donor kidney transplants performed in a university hospital in Ankara, Turkey. MATERIALS AND METHODS In this study, we retrospectively analyzed the hospital records of living kidney donors (1611 cases) and all 1991 kidney recipients who underwent living-donor and deceased-donor kidney transplant procedures in a university hospital between 1985 and 2017. RESULTS In the study hospital, the annual average number of living-donor kidney transplants increased from 19 to 49 cases (total of 1611 cases) per year during the analyzed period. Among them, 57.8% of all kidney donors were female (P < .05), whereas 74.7% of the recipients were male (P < .05). Two-thirds (60.0%; 228/380) of deceased-donor kidney recipients were male. First-degree blood relatives accounted for most of the donors, as the most common donor-recipient relation was mother to son (67.3%; 327/486; P < .05). Interspousal donation also showed a significant difference between husband to wife and vice versa (36 vs 145; P < .05). CONCLUSIONS There was a male and young predominance among recipients and a female and middleaged predominance among donors of living kidney transplants in this hospital. It is not known whether this might be related to possible differences between males and females in demand of kidneys, to socio-cultural and gender inequalities, or to economic factors. Further research with qualitative components on gender factors should be carried out. |
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