Transplant professionals may use the following materials when assessing living donors.*  

American Society of Transplantation (AST) - Offers living donor educational resources through Communities of Practice. 

Kidney Disease: Improving Global Outcomes (KDIGO) - Nonprofit organization that provides clinical practice guidelines on living kidney donation and end-stage kidney disease risk-estimation tools.

Grams ME, Sang Y, Levey AS, Matsushita K, Ballew S, Chang AR, Chow EK, Kasiske BL, Kovesdy CP, Nadkarni GN, Shalev V, Segev DL, Coresh J, Lentine KL, Garg AX; Chronic Kidney Disease Prognosis Consortium. Kidney-Failure Risk Projection for the Living Kidney-Donor Candidate. N Engl J Med. 2016 Feb 4;374(5):411-21. doi: 10.1056/NEJMoa1510491. 

*The Health Resources & Services Administration (HRSA) has approved the sharing of these external resources on the Living Donor Collective website but is not responsible for, nor can it verify, the accuracy of each resource's information.