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  2. National Kidney Registry - Wikipedia

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    Website. kidneyregistry.org. The National Kidney Registry (NKR) is a national registry in the United States listing kidney donors and recipients in need of a kidney transplant. NKR facilitates over 450 "Kidney Paired Donation" (KPD) or "Paired Exchange" transplants annually. [1][2] More than one-third of potential living kidney donors who want ...

  3. Opinion: Kidney donations hurt by financial barriers. Time to ...

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    At 28, I donated my kidney through the National Kidney Registry and found out it went to a teenager who wouldn’t have survived otherwise. It was one of the best decisions I’ve ever made, and I ...

  4. ‘I Almost Died of Kidney Failure at 46—These Are the First ...

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    The National Kidney Foundation notes that kidney disease can happen at any age but is more common in people over the age of ... like the National Kidney Registry. He was surprised to learn that ...

  5. How kidney donation helped Mohegan Lake toddler get her ... - AOL

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    In 2023, 188 of the 27,300 kidney transplants done in the U.S. were on patients under age 5; zero were done on babies under 1 year old. ... through the National Kidney Registry. That then gave ...

  6. National Kidney Foundation - Wikipedia

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    The National Kidney Foundation, Inc. (NKF) is a voluntary nonprofit health organization in the United States, headquartered in New York City, with over 30 local offices across the country. Its mission is to prevent kidney and urinary tract diseases, improve the health and well-being of individuals and families affected by these diseases, and ...

  7. United Network for Organ Sharing - Wikipedia

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    Website. unos.org. The United Network for Organ Sharing (UNOS) is a non-profit scientific and educational organization that administers the only Organ Procurement and Transplantation Network (OPTN) in the United States, established (42 U.S.C. § 274) by the U.S. Congress in 1984 by Gene A. Pierce, founder of United Network for Organ Sharing.

  8. National Kidney Registry's personalized website sharing ... - AOL

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    Jennyl Thomas, 51, of Fayetteville, Georgia, needs a kidney transplant. She's hope a personalized website program launched by the National Kidney Registry will help get her story out, so she can ...

  9. 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.