Society guideline links: Kidney transplantation

Introduction — This topic includes links to society and government-sponsored guidelines from selected countries and regions around the world. We will update these links periodically; newer versions of some guidelines may be available on each society's website. Some societies may require users to log in to access their guidelines.

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Links to related guidelines are provided separately:

●(See "Society guideline links: BK virus infection in kidney transplant recipients".)

●(See "Society guideline links: Cytomegalovirus in solid organ transplant recipients".)

●(See "Society guideline links: Hepatitis B infection in solid organ transplant candidates and recipients".)

●(See "Society guideline links: Hepatitis C infection in solid organ transplant candidates and recipients".)

●(See "Society guideline links: Immunizations in solid organ transplant recipients".)

●(See "Society guideline links: Infections in solid organ transplant recipients".)

●(See "Society guideline links: Solid organ transplantation in individuals with HIV".)

●(See "Society guideline links: Urinary tract infections in solid organ transplant recipients".)

●(See "Society guideline links: Management of potential deceased organ donors".)

International

●Kidney Disease: Improving Global Outcomes (KDIGO): Clinical practice guideline on the evaluation and management of candidates for kidney transplantation (2020)

●The declaration of Istanbul on organ trafficking and transplant tourism, 2018 edition (published 2019)

●KDIGO: Clinical practice guideline on the evaluation and care of living kidney donors (2017)

●KDIGO: Clinical practice guideline for the care of kidney transplant recipients (2009)

Canada

●Canadian Blood Services (CBS): Organs and tissues – Leading practices and clinical guidelines

•Kidney paired donation protocol for participating donors, 2014 (published 2015)

•Kidney allocation in Canada – A Canadian forum (2007)

●Kidney Foundation of Canada (KFOC): Position statements on organ donation

●Canadian Society of Transplantation (CST) and Canadian Network for Rehabilitation and Exercise for Solid Organ Transplant Optimal Recovery (CAN-RESTORE): Joint position statement on exercise for solid organ transplant candidates and recipients (2019)

●CST: Position paper on public solicitation of anonymous organ donors (2016)

●CST: Generic immunosuppression in solid organ transplantation – A Canadian perspective (2012)

●CST and Canadian Society of Nephrology (CSN): Policy statement on organ trafficking and transplant tourism (2011)

●CST and CSN: Commentary on the 2009 KDIGO clinical practice guideline for the care of kidney transplant recipients (2010)

●CST: Consensus guidelines on eligibility for kidney transplantation (2005)

United States

●American Institute of Ultrasound in Medicine (AIUM): Practice parameter for the performance of an ultrasound examination of solid-organ transplants (2020)

●Organ Procurement and Transplantation Network (OPTN): Policies (2019)

●American College of Radiology (ACR): ACR Appropriateness Criteria renal transplant dysfunction (2016)

●American Society of Transplantation (AST) Living Donor Community of Practice (LDCOP): A guidance document on the independent living donor advocate (2015)

●AST: Considerations for screening live kidney donors for endemic infections – A viewpoint on the UNOS policy (2014)

●American Heart Association (AHA) and American College of Cardiology Foundation (ACCF): Expert consensus document on cardiac disease evaluation and management among kidney and liver transplantation candidates (2012)

●National Kidney Foundation Kidney Disease Outcomes Quality Initiative (NKF KDOQI): Managing kidney transplant recipients – A clinical guide for nephrology and transplant professionals (2011)

●NKF KDOQI: Managing your adult patients who have a kidney transplant – Implications for primary care (2011)

●NKF KDOQI: US commentary on the 2009 KDIGO clinical practice guideline for the care of kidney transplant recipients (published 2010)

●AST: Guidelines for post-kidney transplant management in the community setting (2009)

●American Society of Transplant Surgeons (ASTS): Recommended practice guidelines for controlled donation after cardiac death organ procurement and transplantation (2009)

●United Network for Organ Sharing (UNOS), ASTS, and AST: Guidelines for the psychosocial evaluation of living unrelated kidney donors in the United States (2007)

Europe

●Council of Europe (COE): Guide to the quality and safety of organs for transplantation, 8th edition (2022)

●European Association of Urology (EAU): Renal transplantation guidelines (2019)

●COE: Safety, quality and ethical matters related to the use of organs, tissues and cells of human origin, 3rd edition (2017)

●Consensus on Managing Modifiable Risk in Transplantation (COMMIT) Group: Practical recommendations for long-term management of modifiable risks in kidney and liver transplant recipients – A guidance report and clinical checklist (2017)

●European Renal Association (ERA)-European Dialysis Transplant Association (EDTA): ERBP guideline on the management and evaluation of the kidney donor and recipient (2013)

●ERA-EDTA: Endorsement of the Kidney Disease Improving Global Outcomes (KDIGO) guidelines on kidney transplantation – A European Renal Best Practice (ERBP) position statement (2011)

United Kingdom

●National Health Service Blood and Transplant (NHSBT): Policy on living donor kidney transplantation (2020)

●NHSBT: Policy on patient selection for deceased donor kidney only transplantation (2020)

●NHSBT: Policy on kidney transplantation – Deceased donor organ allocation (2019)

●National Institute for Health and Care Excellence (NICE): Guideline on renal replacement therapy and conservative management (2018)

●NICE: Interventional procedures guidance on robot-assisted kidney transplant (2018)

●NICE: Quality standard on renal replacement therapy services for adults (2014, updated 2018)

●The Renal Association (RA) and British Transplantation Society (BTS): Guidelines for living donor kidney transplantation, 4th edition (2018)

●BTS: Guidelines for kidney and pancreas transplantation in patients with HIV, 2nd edition (2015, revised 2017)

●RA: Clinical practice guideline – Post-operative care in the kidney transplant recipient (2017)

●NICE: Clinical guideline on organ donation for transplantation – Improving donor identification and consent rates for deceased organ donation (2011, updated 2016)

●BTS: Guidelines for antibody incompatible transplantation, 3rd edition (2015)

●British Society for Histocompatibility and Immunogenetics (BSHI) and BTS: Guidelines on the detection and characterisation of clinically relevant antibodies in allotransplantation (2015)

●BTS: Guidelines for management of the failing kidney transplant (2014)

●BTS: Guidelines for transplantation from deceased donors after circulatory death (2013)

●NICE: Interventional procedures guidance on laparoscopic live donor simple nephrectomy (2004)

Australia-New Zealand

●Transplantation Society of Australia and New Zealand (TSANZ): Clinical guidelines for organ transplantation from deceased donors (2021)

●Australian National Health and Medical Research Council (NHMRC): Ethical guidelines for organ transplantation from deceased donors (2016)

●Kidney Health Australia (KHA)-Caring for Australasians with Renal Impairment (CARI): Guidelines on recipient assessment for transplantation (2013)

●KHA-CARI: Adaptation of the KDIGO clinical practice guideline for the care of kidney transplant recipients (2012)

Japan

●[In Japanese] Japanese Society for Clinical Renal Transplantation (JSCRT): Post-renal transplant medical care guidelines for internal and pediatric complications (2011)