Living Kidney Donation
Web Sites
Here are some additional
web sites related to living kidney
donation.
General Information on
Living Kidney Donation
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National Kidney Foundation in the US—Answers
to questions
about living donation. A great Q&A. The NKF also has a living
donor
message board which you can access here.
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National Living Donor Assistance Center--a US government funded program that provides financial assistance to certain living donors.
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The British Transplant Society has also
published guidelines for living donor kidney transplantation. This is a
large (2.44MB), comprehensive document targeted to
medical professionals, so it contains a lot of medical terminology. You
need to have Adobe Acrobat reader on your computer. If you read
these
guidelines, you'll be an expert!
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Information on living donation from the UK-based National Kidney Federation.
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The Transplant Living
home page on living donation. Transplant Living is the online
educational project of the US-based United Network for Organ Sharing,
the nonprofit organization that administers the Organ Procurement and
Transplant Network, the system that gathers and allocated organs for
transplants in the US.
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Questions and answers on living donation from the UK's National Health Service.
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Living donor Q&A from the California Pacific Medical Center.
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A PDF file, "Kidney Donation by Live Donors," published by the NSW Health (New South Wales, Australia).
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A research paper
from 2005 on living donation published in the Journal of the American
Society of Nephrology made available on the London (Ontario) Heatlh
Sciences Centre web site.
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Information on living
donation in Australia.
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Another Australian site with PDF files on living donation
on the middle of the web page.
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Living Organ
Donor Advocate
Program home page.
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Living donor site based in Australia: LivingKidneyDonor
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Watch streaming video of a living kidney transplant. Here are videos of living kidney donation on YouTube: here and here.
Living
Donor Registries, Paired
Exchange and "Swap" Programs
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Washington Regional Living Kidney Donor
Program—one
of the most comprehensive living kidney donor registries, supporting
paired exchange, nondirected (anonymous) donation, and "three-way"
exchange (where a living donor contributes to the general kidney pool
and that donor's relative rises on the region's transplant list).
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Alliance for Paired Donation web site.
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Web site for the North American Paired Donation Network.
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An article on the "Hope Through Sharing" living donor
registry operated
by New England Medical Center (Boston, MA). Here's a link
to the Department of Transplantation.
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Article on the Living Organ Donor Registry
at Center for Organ
Recovery and Education (Pittsburgh, PA), which includes anonymous
donation, paired exchange, and living donor/cadaver exchange.
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Johns Hopkins paired exchange
program.
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The anonymous nondirected donation program
at Fairview-University
Medical Center (Minneapolis, MN).
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Altruistic Kidney Donor Program
at Rhode Island
Hospital (Providence, RI).
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The living
donor program sponsored by the
Midwest
Transplant Network.
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Genesis
Transplants,
a new private kidney
transplant program that intends to include paired
exchange.
Descriptions of
Transplant Center Programs
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If you have a problem with a transplant program, you can
call the UNOS patient service line at 888-894-6361. Patient services
staff can be reached by phone from 8:30am to 5:00pm Eastern, Monday
through Friday. Voice mail is available outside of these hours.
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University
of Maryland kidney transplant
program—includes details on
laparoscopic nephrectomy, Q&As for living donors, and an online
video on living donation.
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Northwestern Memorial Hospital
Division of
Transplantation—information on living donation.
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Johns Hopkins information on their living donation program.
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The Mayo Clinic (Rochester, MN).
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Fairview-University Medical Center
(Minneapolis, MN)—the
program includes laparoscopic nephrectomy and anonymous nondirected
donation.
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University of Virginia Health System
(Charlottesville, VA).
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SUNY Upstate Medical University Hospital
(Syracuse, NY).
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University of Southern California Kidney
Transplant
Program (Los Angeles, CA)—includes
laparoscopic nephrectomy
and a 10-minute online video of the surgery.
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Loma Linda University Medical Center
(Loma Linda, CA)
program (this is one of several
pages on living donation on the
site).
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University
of Texas Medical Branch (Galveston, TX)
kidney transplant program, including living donation. Site includes a
sample medical evaluation questionnaire for living donors.
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St. Vincent Medical Center (Los Angeles, CA) living donor program.
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