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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Can LGBTQ+ People Be Kidney Donors?
Many members of the LGBTQ+ community may think they are unable to become living kidney donors. This is a common misconception that is based on outdated information.
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My Kidney Donation Story: LJ Dong
My story began in 2013. I had just gotten married and thought I was going to have a family. Then I broke my back and had to have multiple surgeries. I was in a wheelchair for a couple years.
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60 Lives, 30 Kidneys, All Linked
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