Advances in Medicine / 2017 / Article / Tab 1 / Review Article
Cigarette Smoking and Its Hazards in Kidney Transplantation Table 1 Summary of previous publications on implication of cigarette smoking in kidney donors.
Number Author Journal/year Conclusion (1) Segev et al. [23 ] JAMA/2010 Higher death rate in kidney donors with cigarette smoking (2) Patel et al. [24 ] Transplantation/2008 More perioperative complications (3) Mjøen et al. [25 ] Transplantation/2009 More postoperative wound infections (4) Ommen et al. [26 ] Am J Transplant/2011 Less likely to provide follow-up information requested by transplant centers (5) Robert et al. [27 ] J Crit Care/2010 No impact on delayed graft function (6) Heldt et al. [28 ] AdvUrol/2011 (1) Active smoker or past history of smoking has high creatinine at end of 1 year as compared to the nonsmoker. (2) Recipients had higher creatinine and lower GFR (7) Underwood et al. [29 ] Clin Transplant/2014 (1) No difference in postoperative complications (2) No effect on graft survival (3) Reduced recipient survival if donor was a smoker (8) Keles et al. [30 ] Transplant Proc/2015 Significant drop in cigarette smoking from 47% to 29% after kidney donation