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Beyond the gift: unveiling the impact of donor-recipient relationship on donors’ quality of life and mental health – results of a european bi-center study

Key takeaways

This study, run at 2 centers in Europe, looked at people who gave a kidney to someone while alive. It asked whether their relationship to the person who got the kidney, such as spouse, parent or friend, is tied to the donor's quality of life and mental health afterward. It shows links, not proof of cause. No abstract was available, so we could not check the numbers.

Who did this work

Papachristou C (Department of Psychology, Aristotle University of Thessaloniki , ,) · Papoulaki N (Department of Psychology, Aristotle University of Thessaloniki , ,) · Kondi E (DTI Foundation , ,) · Budde K (Clinic for Nephrology CCM, Charité University Medicine , ,) · Torres X (Hospital Clinic de Barcelona , ,) · Babel N (Department for Internal Medicine Campus Virchow, Charité-University Medicine , ,) · Revuelta I (Department of Nephrology and Kidney Transplant, Hospital Clinic Barcelona , ,)

Source

Paper · Europe PMC, CKD · 2026-09-17
https://europepmc.org/article/PMC/PMC13580331