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2. 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.

3. 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 ...

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

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   Facts about being a living organ donor There were more than 42,000 organ transplants conducted in 2022 , a record number. Still, there are more than 100,000 people on the national waiting list in ...

6. Organ donation - Wikipedia

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   The National Donor Monument, Naarden, the Netherlands Organ donation is the process when a person authorizes an organ of their own to be removed and transplanted to another person, legally, either by consent while the donor is alive, through a legal authorization for deceased donation made prior to death, or for deceased donations through the authorization by the legal next of kin.

7. National Kidney Registry - Wikipedia

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   More than one-third of potential living kidney donors who want to donate their kidney to a friend or family member cannot because of blood type or antibody incompatibility. [3] Historically, these donors would be turned away and the patient would lose the opportunity to receive a life-saving kidney transplant. KPD overcomes donor-recipient ...

8. Former NBA Player Nate Robinson Pleads for a Kidney Donor ...

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   Ian Allen for Men’s Health Former NBA player Nate Robinson is hoping for a miracle as he continues to search for a kidney donor. Ever since his kidneys failed in 2018, the 40-year-old athlete ...

9. Kidney paired donation - Wikipedia

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   Kidney paired donation (KPD), or paired exchange, is an approach to living donor kidney transplantation where patients with incompatible donors swap kidneys to receive a compatible kidney. KPD is used in situations where a potential donor is incompatible.