Passport stored in a basket, I press my face to a halo pillow so someone will touch and touch me. I wait within a synthetic cadence of ocean waves’ crescendos. The body is a lonely crossroads. At first you only hover, flutter. Then you lash and drub me like the sea. Your oiled hands stretch and strain. Your joints pass bone to bore into muscle. You keep me close to whimpers. For this I paid, but not so dearly. To see your eyes would be a violation, though I can’t say why. I feel your work is tougher than mine... Читать дальше...
In Reply We appreciate the comments provided by Drs Lin and Huang. In theory, randomized trials could generate unbiased estimates of donor risk; however, randomized trials of living kidney donation are not ethically feasible. The best possible approach is to conduct a multicenter prospective cohort study that enrolls donors and nondonors with similar indicators of baseline health and follows them with minimal loss to follow-up for outcomes. We conducted such a study to produce estimates of kidney... Читать дальше...
To the Editor A recent study reported no significant difference in the risk of hypertension and albuminuria among living kidney donors and nondonors over a median follow-up of 7.3 years. In their Editorial, Drs Lorenz and Winkelmayer outlined some limitations of this study, and we have some additional concerns about the results.
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