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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's never been a safer time to give a kidney. The risk of death for people who donated a kidney has dropped by more than half in the last ...

3. Organ donation - Wikipedia

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   Healthy humans have two kidneys, but can live a healthy life with only one. This enables living donors (inter vivos) to give a kidney to someone who needs it, with little to no long-term risk. [171] [172] The most common transplants are to close relatives, but people have given kidneys to other friends. The rarest type of donation is the ...

4. Organ donation in the United States prison population

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   Living organ donation, as an alternative to deceased organ donation, has become an option given its low complication rates and more positive outcomes. [9] For example, the estimated cost of a kidney transplant is about $111,000. [10] A prisoner's dialysis treatments are estimated to cost a prison $120,000 per year. [11]

5. Organ donation after medical assistance in dying - Wikipedia

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   Organs regularly transplanted include lungs, heart, cornea, pancreas, and kidneys. Modes of donation are an altruistic living donation of a non-vital organ (generally a kidney) and post-mortal organ donation (PMOD). PMOD can be subdivided into donation after brain death (DBD) and donation after circulatory determination of death (DCDD). [5 ...

6. Man felt 'fate calling' him to donate his kidney. He didn't ...

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   Pat O'Shaughnessy, 64, decided to selflessly donate his kidney to a family friend. After nearly three days of screening tests, doctors made a surprise discovery.

7. Woman loses 100 lbs, learns her weight loss qualifies her to ...

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   This program allows people to donate kidneys and be paired with another donor. The donors don’t have to be a close relative. They can be anyone willing and qualified to donate.

8. National Kidney Registry - Wikipedia

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   Remote donation utilizes proven logistics systems pioneered in kidney swaps by the National Kidney Registry over the past decade to safely transport the kidney from the donor's local hospital to the transplant center in the distant city. Research has proven that shipping a live kidney for transplant has no significant impact on patient outcomes.

9. Texas death row inmate asks to delay execution to donate kidney

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   A man on death row in Texas has asked the state to delay his execution so that he can donate a kidney. Ramiro Gonzales, 39, is set to be killed Wednesday after he was convicted for the 2001 murder ...