Facilitating Well-Matched Living Kidney Donor Transplants. Protecting and Supporting Living Donors.
The National Kidney Registry is dedicated to increasing the number of kidney transplants from living donors, improving donor-recipient matches for longer-lasting transplants, and offering protection and support to living kidney donors to make the kidney donation process safer, easier and more convenient.
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What to Do If You’re Disqualified from Becoming a Kidney Donor Due to Your BMI
There are several reasons why someone might be disqualified as a living kidney donor. One of them is weight, or more specifically, body mass index (BMI).
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My Kidney Donation Story: Kathie Neyman
In 2022, I was 63. I had never considered organ donation other than being a donor on my driver’s license. I had never thought about it, never known anyone who had donated a kidney or had a kidney transplant.
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