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: Mimi Mahon
My mom suffered an acute kidney injury in the spring of 2015 that was a result of sepsis. While we are still unsure of exactly what caused her to be sick in the first place, the events that transpired are quite a story.
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