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2. How safe is it to donate a kidney? New research has ... - AOL

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   There's never been a safer time to donate a kidney. ... there were 164,593 kidney donors included in the study. ... which required a much larger incision that needed longer recovery time and more ...

3. Kidney transplantation - Wikipedia

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   This reduces pain and accelerates recovery for the donor. Operative time and complications decreased significantly after a surgeon performed 150 cases. Live donor kidney grafts have higher long-term success rates than those from deceased donors. [37] Since the increase in the use of laparoscopic surgery, the number of live donors has increased.

4. Organ procurement - Wikipedia

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   If the organ donor is human, most countries require that the donor be legally dead for consideration of organ transplantation (e.g. cardiac death or brain death). For some organs, a living donor can be the source of the organ. For example, living donors can donate one kidney or part of their liver to a well-matched recipient. [2]

5. Organ transplantation - Wikipedia

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   Paired exchange programs were popularized in the New England Journal of Medicine article "Ethics of a paired-kidney-exchange program" in 1997 by L.F. Ross. [46] It was also proposed by Felix T. Rapport [47] in 1986 as part of his initial proposals for live-donor transplants "The case for a living emotionally related international kidney donor ...

6. Sisters used Craigslist to find a kidney donor for their dad ...

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   Because those donors are healthier at the time of transplant, the recipients often have improved outcomes, a quicker recovery and a longer-lasting organ, according to the University of Pittsburgh ...

7. 6 strangers involved in 3-way kidney transplant meet for the ...

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   These New York organ donors proved that being deemed 'not-a-match' with their loved ones is not the end of their transplant process. 6 strangers involved in 3-way kidney transplant meet for the ...

8. Nephrectomy - Wikipedia

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   A partial nephrectomy should be attempted when there is a kidney tumor in a solitary kidney, when there are kidney tumors in both kidneys, or when removing the entire kidney could result in kidney failure and the need for dialysis. Partial nephrectomy is also the standard of care for nearly all patients with small renal masses (<4 cm in size). [22]

9. National Kidney Registry - Wikipedia

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   Repairing real-time swap failures - A real-time swap failure occurs when a swap falls apart after one or more donor surgeries have begun, leaving a patient, whose donor has already donated, without a kidney. Real-time swap failures can occur when a donor surgery must be aborted due to previously undetected donor medical conditions and when a ...