Willing but Unable - Exploring the Barriers to Living Kidney Donation in a Tertiary Hospital in Southeast Nigeria: A Preliminary Report.
The potential living donors evaluated were mostly young males that were unrelated to their potential recipients. Immunologic incompatibility was the leading cause of failure to donate a kidney; mainly from donor-recipient significant HLA mismatches.
Authors
- I J Orji
- O D Ekwenna
- H Sylvanus-Kanu
- A Chuku
- M A Erondu
- R A Balogun
- Chimezie Godswill Okwuonu
- S Alhassan
- A K Onyebuchi
Institutions
- University of Toledo Medical Center (US)
- Federal Medical Centre (NG)
- Federal Medical Centre (NG)
- Center for Neuroscience and Regenerative Medicine (US)
- Aminu Kano Teaching Hospital (NG)
Publication Details
- Journal
- PubMed
- Published
- 2025-08-29
- Primary Topic
- Organ Donation and Transplantation
- Type
- article
- Field-Weighted Citation Impact
- 0.00