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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How Old is Too Old to Donate a Kidney?
Are you considering becoming a living kidney donor but worry you might be too old to donate? Here’s what you need to know about age limits for living kidney donation.
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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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